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هذه الصفحة صفحة أرشيف. من فضلك لا تعدلها. لإضافة تعليقات جديدة عدل صفحة النقاش الأصيلة.

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New article requests

Hi! Here are some new article requests. Would anybody mind starting these?

Thanks WhisperToMe (نقاش) 06:04، 27 أغسطس 2013 (ت ع م)

I need helo with pending review

https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%8A&oldid=14907243&diff=cur Hello, I have been waiting for nearly two months for a review to be processed. This is the link;

Can someone help me please?

I have tried the Arabic IRC channel but there is none coming on to help...so I spoke to the English channel and they suggested a open a help desk ticket..

أود أن أحيطكم علما أنني أنتظر مراجعة تعديلات على الصفحة التالية منذ أكثر من شهرين: https://ar.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=%D8%B3%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%8A%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AF%D9%88%D8%B3%D8%B1%D9%8A&oldid=14907243&diff=cur

أرجو أن تراجعوها في أقرب وقت ممكن.

تواصلت مع الموقع الإنجليزي ونصحوني أن أراسلكم مباشرة.

تحياتي

Response in english is much appreciated

Redirect or merge

I've put here some weeks ago a list of pages that need to be merged or redirected. I would do it by myself but my contributions are flagged as suspect when I erase the references. Ths list is here: أرابيكا:سفارة/أرشيف_15#Merging

Also this is further articles to merge:

المسح الجيولوجي الأمريكي - الماسح الجيولوجي الأمريكي

Louperivois (نقاش) 20:10، 22 أكتوبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #181

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- New request for comments: Derived properties, Are colors instance-of or subclass-of color
Events/Blogs/Press
- Poof it works - using wikidata to build Wikipedia articles about genes
- Wikidata, SPARQL and huskies (French)
- Wikidata, SPARQL and elected dynasties (French)
- The birth and death of German playwrights
- Distributed stats
- Past: Wikidata training at Wikimedia UK
- Upcoming: Wikidata's 3rd birthday \o/ (on 29th)
- Upcoming: SemWeb.Pro in Paris
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There's a new Wikidata taxonomy browser
- Meta, MediaWiki and Wikispecies now have access to sitelinks on Wikidata. Welcome to Wikidata, sisters!
- Harvest templates. New tool to copy data from templates to Wikidata.
- Number of articles that are not connected to a Wikidata item on Italian Wikipedia has been brought down significantly. How about yours?
- The Wikidata Game now has a primary sources game and one to match Wikispecies pages to Wikidata items
- The National Gallery of Arts was added to Mix'n'match
- Some more query examples: Dracula movies and their actors, movies with links to videos
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Debrett's People of Today ID, maximum operating altitude, DfE URN, NGA artist id, life expectancy, Refseq Genome ID, argument of periapsis, periapsis
Development
- ctrl-space now enables autocomplete for labels on http://query.wikidata.org . Should make it easier for you to find the right items and properties.
- Worked on birthday present :)
- From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the Wikidata json dumps will be published, along with the gzip compressed version.
- Made it possible to get from the search results page to the article placeholder. This was one of the last holdups for a first demo version.
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:25، 25 أكتوبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Looking for Wikipedians/Wikimedians in Cairo

hello! I am a user of Italian Wikipedia and Commons. I am travelling to Cairo next month and I would like to get in touch with the local wikipedian/wikimedian community. I especially would like to ask some support about the rules of taking pictures in Egypt to upload to Commons. I am one of the most active commoneers (+200.000 files uploades, mostly about art and architecture, many photos of mine are used here in arabic wikipedia too!) and would like to ask if you think there is a chance to get an authorization to make pictures for Commons in the Cairo Museum. It's a bit difficult for me to ask as I don't understand arabic. I'll give you more details and longer presentation later. Thanks for your help! Merhaba. --Sailko (نقاش) 09:59، 27 أكتوبر 2015 (ت ع م) (Francesco) a

Thank you!! --Sailko (نقاش) 12:14، 28 أكتوبر 2015 (ت ع م)

@Sailko: Hi. I recommend @Mohamed Ouda: for you. Also, you may want to see the local Category:Wikipedians in Cairo. --Meno25 (نقاش) 08:37، 28 أكتوبر 2015 (ت ع م)

VisualEditor News #5—2015

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Did you know?

You can use the visual editor on smartphones and tablets.

Click the pencil icon to open the editor for a page. Inside that, use the gear menu in the upper right corner to "تحول إلى التعديل المرئي".

The editing button will remember which editing environment you used last time, and give you the same one next time. The desktop site will be switching to a system similar to this one in the coming months.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs, added new features, and made some small design changes. They post weekly status reports on mediawiki.org. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages like Japanese and Arabic, making it easier to edit on mobile devices, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

Educational features: The first time ever you use the visual editor, it now draws your attention to the وصلة and ⧼visualeditor-toolbar-cite-label⧽ tools. When you click on the tools, it explains why you should use them. (T108620) Alongside this, the welcome message for new users has been simplified to make editing more welcoming. (T112354) More in-software educational features are planned.

Links: It is now easier to understand when you are adding text to a link and when you are typing plain text next to it. (T74108, T91285) The editor now fully supports ISBN, PMID or RFC numbers. (T109498, T110347, T63558) These "magic links" use a custom link editing tool.

Uploads: Registered editors can now upload images and other media to Commons while editing. Click the new tab in the "إدراج الصور والوسائط" tool. You will be guided through the process without having to leave your edit. At the end, the image will be inserted. This tool is limited to one file at a time, owned by the user, and licensed under Commons's standard license. For more complex situations, the tool links to more advanced upload tools. You can also drag the image into the editor. This will be available in the wikitext editor later.

Mobile: Previously, the visual editor was available on the mobile Wikipedia site only on tablets. Now, editors can use it on all devices regardless of size if they wish. (T85630) Edit conflicts were previously broken on the mobile website. Edit conflicts can now be resolved in both wikitext and visual editors. (T111894) Sometimes templates and similar items could not be deleted on the mobile website. Selecting them caused the on-screen keyboard to hide with some browsers. Now there is a new "شطب" button, so that these things can be removed if the keyboard hides. (T62110) You can also edit table cells in mobile now.

Rich editing tools: You can now add and edit sheet music in the visual editor. (T112925) There are separate tabs for advanced options, such as MIDI and Ogg audio files. (T114227, T113354) When editing formulæ and other blocks, errors are shown as you edit. It is also possible to edit some types of graphs; adding new ones, and support for new types, will be coming.

On the English Wikipedia, the visual editor is now automatically available to anyone who creates an account. The preference switch was moved to the normal location, under Special:Preferences.

Future changes

You will soon be able to switch from the wikitext to the visual editor after you start editing. (T49779) Previously, you could only switch from the visual editor to the wikitext editor. Bi-directional switching will make possible a single edit tab. (T102398) This project will combine the "عدِّل" and "عدل المصدر" tabs into a single "عدِّل" tab, similar to the system already used on the mobile website. The "عدِّل" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time.

Let's work together

Share your ideas and ask questions at VisualEditor/Feedback. This feedback page uses Flow for discussions.
Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).
Local admins can set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki. If you need help, then please post a request in the Citoid project on Phabricator. Include links to the TemplateData for the most important citation templates on your wiki.
The weekly task triage meetings are open to volunteers. Learn how to join the meetings and how to nominate bugs at mw:VisualEditor/Weekly triage meetings. You do not need to attend the meeting to nominate a bug for consideration, though. Instead, go to Phabricator and "associate" the main VisualEditor project with the bug.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. Thank you!

—Elitre (WMF), 18:17، 30 أكتوبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #182

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- How to add dates with undefined calendar (Julian or Gregorian)? is discussed on Project chat.
Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata turned 3! The party doubled as the award ceremony for the Land der Ideen price.
  I love Wikidata because
  - Page with state of the project editorial, message from the development team and greetings
  - Images from the party
  - Denny and Erik look back at the beginning of the project - the other recordings are still being cut but you can already see the uncut stream here
  - Presents:
    - Three presents for Wikidata's third birthday from Amir including artificial intelligence to find vandalism!
    - Improved query.wikidata.org by the dev team
    - Preview of the Article Placeholder by Lucie (bachelor student of the dev team)
    - Special:Nearby by the dev team
    - Donation of CC World University & School (WUaS) to CC Wikidata to celebrate its 3rd birthday! by Scott_WUaS
    - Your name in Wikidata Morse code from TMg
- Help organize the Wikidata related sessions at Wikimania 2016
- Past: Open Access Week
- Past: DINI Jahrestagung (slides)
- Past: Tehran SFD (video)
- Upcoming: ODI Summit
- Upcoming: SWAT4LS
- Modeling the social network of movie actors of the 1920s and 1930s with Wikidata
- Looking for…science fiction movies on the Linked Data Cloud
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Italian Wikipedia matched up nearly all of their articles to items on Wikidata. Congrats!
- Bene updated the Tours. Please help translate them here.
- The Distributed Game now has a Kian module suggesting statements to add
- Andrew made maps of missing images on Wikidata: South Africa, India, Australia, world
- Nikki imported dates of birth and death for more than 40,000 persons from Japanese Wikipedia.
- Example query: French people with an article on English Wikipedia but not French Wikipedia
- Example query: paintings without dimension (add some?)
- Example query: people or things born or created on the same day of the year as Wikidata
- We passed 15M items.
- Happy 10th anniversary to Semantic MediaWiki! We wouldn't be where we are today without you.
- All 8,860 fellows of the Royal Society have been matched to Wikidata items
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Wikidata property sample, Emporis building complex ID, Orsay Museum artist ID, Politifact Personality Identifier, Fashion Model Directory ID, mix'n'match catalogue ID, ISOCAT id, draft, beam, ionization energy, ITU-T network identifier, mobile country code, frequency of event
- Newest External tools: Top missing P31 by number of sitelinks list the items with most sitelinks lacking instance of or subclass of
Development
- Worked on birthday presents (Special:Nearby, article placeholder demo system and improvements to query.wikidata.org)
- Wes, Stas, Dan and James from the WMF came over to talk through current work around Wikidata and plans for the future
- Further poked at editing references at the same time as rest of the statement
- Investigated where we can push next to improve performance
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:54، 2 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #183

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Lakokat
Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata/Wikibase Json Dump Reader
- Wikidata project to tackle language barriers in scientific reserach
- Semantic Cities
- Q167545: Wikidata celebrated its third birthday
- Slides from talk at UCSD on "Open biomedical knowledge using crowdsourcing and citizenscience"
- Past: semwebpro (slides)
- Past: ODI Summit
- Past: MozFest (etherpad)
- Upcoming: WikiConference Seoul

Other Noteworthy Stuff
- List of Wikipedia articles without an image where Wikidata has one
- Want to use data from Wikidata to enrich data in your own application? S wrote a good start.
- Commons misconceptions and how to avoid them by School of Data
Did you know?
- Newest properties: charted in, Danish parish code, venous drainage, lymphatic drainage, CRIStin ID, arterial supply, periapsis date, price, uses, Groeningemuseum work PID, iTunes album ID, Austrian Parliament ID, ambitus, Member of the Hellenic Parliament ID, Magdeburger Biographisches Lexikon, UEFA player code, World Health Organisation International Nonproprietary Name, Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities member ID, Hederich article
- Ever noticed ranks?
Development
- Worked on the tests for the ArticlePlaceholder
- Finished the create article button for the ArticlePlaceholder page
- From Monday on a bzip2 compressed version of the beta Wikidata TTL dumps will be published along the gzip one
- Getting close to make it possible to add the main value of a statement and its reference at the same time
- Worked on adding a new section to item and property pages for identifiers
- Did backend work for making identifiers useful in our machine-readable outputs (by actually linking them instead of just giving the identifier string) - more work needed
- Fixed a bug where dates would have English months on non-English wikis (phabricator:T116503)
- Fixed a bug when editing labels on mobile (phabricator:T117184)
- Worked more on making search work on mobile
- Worked on a fix for a visual glitch in the table of content on mobile (the box is bigger than its content)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:25، 9 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Community Wishlist Survey

Hi everyone! Apologies for posting in English. Translations are very welcome.

The Community Tech team at the Wikimedia Foundation is focused on building improved curation and moderation tools for experienced Wikimedia contributors. We're now starting a Community Wishlist Survey to find the most useful projects that we can work on.

For phase 1 of the survey, we're inviting all active contributors to submit brief proposals, explaining the project that you'd like us to work on, and why it's important. Phase 1 will last for 2 weeks. In phase 2, we'll ask you to vote on the proposals. Afterwards, we'll analyze the top 10 proposals and create a prioritized wishlist.

While most of this process will be conducted in English, we're inviting people from any Wikimedia wiki to submit proposals. We'll also invite volunteer translators to help translate proposals into English.

Your proposal should include: the problem that you want to solve, who would benefit, and a proposed solution, if you have one. You can submit your proposal on the Community Wishlist Survey page, using the entry field and the big blue button. We will be accepting proposals for 2 weeks, ending on November 23.

We're looking forward to hearing your ideas!

Community Tech Team via MediaWiki message delivery (نقاش) 21:57، 9 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Wikimania 2016 scholarships ambassadors needed

Hello! Wikimania 2016 scholarships will soon be open; by the end of the week we'll form the committee and we need your help, see Scholarship committee for details.

If you want to carefully review nearly a thousand applications in January, you might be a perfect committee member. Otherwise, you can volunteer as "ambassador": you will observe all the committee activities, ensure that people from your language or project manage to apply for a scholarship, translate scholarship applications written in your language to English and so on. Ambassadors are allowed to ask for a scholarship, unlike committee members.

Wikimania 2016 scholarships subteam 10:47، 10 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Wikiproject Erasmus Prize Winners

Dear fellow wikipedians,

My apologies for using English here, please help translate if you are able.
Wikipedia has been awarded the Erasmus Prize 2015. This prize is awarded annually to a person or institution that has made an exceptional contribution to culture, society or social science. The King of the Netherlands will present the award on 25 November. This will create media attention which will hopefully result in plenty of new volunteers. Prior to the award ceremony we would like to write and improve articles on former Erasmus Prize winners. All 80 former laureates should be notable enough to merit an article.

Please join the project and help us provide our fellow laureates with articles.

Sincerely, FrankTMeijer and Taketa (نقاش) 05:56، 11 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #184

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Lakokat
Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Callisto - a tool that shows places depicted in artworks
- Qwery.me - an experiment for a simplified query service with SPARQL
- Whitepaper exploring Wikidata for cultural institutions
- Example query: real numbers with their approximate value
- Pre-print: Centralizing content and distributing labor: a community model for curating the very long tail of microbial genomes
Did you know?
Development
- Added language fallback to Special:ConstraintReport
- Fixed a bug that prevented undoing edits via the api (phabricator:T101694)
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section and linking them in the machine-readable export formats
- Worked on making search suggestions work on mobile
- Experimented with using icons instead of text for some of the actions in an item
- Made a lot of progress on a good default layout for the ArticlePlaceholder
- Nearly finished simultaneous editing of value and reference
- Improved browser tests and fixed issues with them
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:04، 16 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Harassment consultation

⧼Please-translate⧽

The Community Advocacy team the Wikimedia Foundation has opened a consultation on the topic of harassment on Meta. The consultation period is intended to run for one month from today, November 16, and end on December 17. Please share your thoughts there on harassment-related issues facing our communities and potential solutions. (Note: this consultation is not intended to evaluate specific cases of harassment, but rather to discuss the problem of harassment itself.)

Harassment consultation 2015

Regards, Community Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation

Wikidata weekly summary #185

Wikidata weekly summary #114

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- New request for comments: Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
Events/Blogs/Press
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Mix'n'match: new catalogs were added
- Whitepaper for GLAM institutions wanting to work with Wikdiata
- MediaWiki, Meta, Wikispecies and Wikinews will get access to the data on Wikidata on Dec. 2nd. (So far they only have access to sitelinks.)
- What kind of information does Wikidata have? Jura made an overview for the types of statements we have.
- You can now use SPARQL instead of WDQ for all Listeria bot-generated lists, on all wikis. See en:Template:Wikidata list
- Alpha release of Wikipedia Gender Inequality Index (using data from Wikidata)
- Query examples: all xkcd comics, English demonyms for countries
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Cycling Archives ID (team), Cycling Archives ID (race), antagonist muscle, ProCyclingStats ID (team), ProCyclingStats ID (race), GNS Unique Feature Identifier, mean anomaly, quantity buried, Swedish Olympic Committee athlete ID, article ID, general classification, aftershocks, elector, debut participant, call sign, constraint status, comment, min quantity, max quantity, max date, min date, relation, class, namespace, property, item, group by, exception to constraint, property constraint, minimal lethal dose
Development
- Rolled out simultaneous editing of main part of the statement and reference
- Did a clean-up of the statements section (removing some lines etc) and added icons for the actions on statements
- Worked more on moving identifiers into their own section in item pages and having them linked properly in the exports
- Work on improving ranking of search results on Wikidata
- Decreased size of html of item pages
- Adapted our code to some minor changes in the watchlist code in core
- More work on making the search on mobile work
- Made preparations for constraint definitions through statements on properties
- Fixing size of table of content on mobile
- Prevented merging of items which link to each other
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 19:28، 22 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Your input requested on the proposed #FreeBassel banner campaign

This is a message regarding the proposed 2015 Free Bassel banner. Translations are available.

Hi everyone,

This is to inform all Wikimedia contributors that a straw poll seeking your involvement has just been started on Meta-Wiki.

As some of your might be aware, a small group of Wikimedia volunteers have proposed a banner campaign informing Wikipedia readers about the urgent situation of our fellow Wikipedian, open source software developer and Creative Commons activist, Bassel Khartabil. An exemplary banner and an explanatory page have now been prepared, and translated into about half a dozen languages by volunteer translators.

We are seeking your involvement to decide if the global Wikimedia community approves starting a banner campaign asking Wikipedia readers to call on the Syrian government to release Bassel from prison. We understand that a campaign like this would be unprecedented in Wikipedia's history, which is why we're seeking the widest possible consensus among the community.

Given Bassel's urgent situation and the resulting tight schedule, we ask everyone to get involved with the poll and the discussion to the widest possible extent, and to promote it among your communities as soon as possible.

(Apologies for writing in English; please kindly translate this message into your own language.)

Thank you for your participation!

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery 21:47, 25 November 2015 (UTC) • Translate • Get help

Wikidata weekly summary #186

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: Koavf
Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Wikipedia and Wikidata editathon (EditatónAlicia) in Mexico
- Past: Wikimedia Conferentie Nederland
- Past: Wikidata Editathon at the National Library of Wales
- Past: Ubuntu Conference, Paris
- Is Wikidata the new Rosetta Stone?
- WordLift 3.0: A brief semantic story – part 1
- Workshop i Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Your help is needed with the most important constraint violations.
- New daily report on Mix'n'match
- Daily updated list of people who's birthday is today
- French Wikisource is using images from Wikidata for their author page headers and more now (example)
- New catalogs have been added to Mix'n'match
- A new author language game has been added to the Wikidata distributed game.
- Mix’n’match now creates a new, pre-filled Wikidata item when no matching one can be found (by humans!), where possible
- Workflow sketch for the OA Signalling project
- example of a Listeria list created from a SPARQL query
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Australian Stratigraphic Units Database ID, Roman agnomen, Roman cognomen, production code, NMHH film rating, time to altitude, online service, intended public, Roman nomen gentilicium, Roman praenomen, Classification of Instructional Programs code, UNESCO endangered language ID, has list, statistical unit, applies to taxon, number of graves, Speedskatingbase.eu ID, Stuttgart Database of Scientific Illustrators ID, period, YSO ID, Elonet movie ID, AGORHA event identifier, AGORHA work ID, playing range image, AGORHA person/institution ID, indigenous to, CESAR person ID, BoardGameGeek ID, Musopen composer ID, SFDb-identifier of group, SFDb-identifier of soundtrack, SFDb-identifier of company, SFDb movie ID, Norwegian organization number, Dictionary of Art Historians
Development
- Worked on (and for now finished) a new, prettier layout for the ArticlePlaceholder-generated pages
- Made improvements to page size by removing a lot of unneeded comments in the HTML
- Worked more on putting identifiers into their own section and linking them properly without a gadget
- Looked into making it possible to edit more languages without the labellister gadget
- Worked on improving the ranking of search results on Special:Search
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:02، 30 نوفمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Community Wishlist Survey

Hi everyone! Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.

We're beginning the second part of the Community Tech team's Community Wishlist Survey, and we're inviting all active contributors to vote on the proposals that have been submitted.

Thanks to you and other Wikimedia contributors, 111 proposals were submitted to the team. We've split the proposals into categories, and now it's time to vote! You can vote for any proposal listed on the pages, using the {{Support}} tag. Feel free to add comments pro or con, but only support votes will be counted. The voting period will be 2 weeks, ending on December 14.

The proposals with the most support votes will be the team's top priority backlog to investigate and address. Thank you for participating, and we're looking forward to hearing what you think!

Community Tech via

MediaWiki message delivery (نقاش) 14:38، 1 ديسمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #187

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Semantic Web Application and Tools 4 Life Science
- Ongoing: Wikidata for Beginners session at DISH 2015, Rotterdam, 8 December 2015
- Upcoming: Wikidata pour la science
- Upcoming: Workshop on "Wikidata as a platform for biocuration" at Biocuration 2016
- Slides for talk "Building the sum of all human citations"
- Op-ed in Signpost (Lydia is working on a piece to address some of the points)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Closing in towards 1 million links between Commons categories and Wikidata article-type items --8,000 more by next week?
- Help labeling edits to improve the vandalism detection on Wikidata
- Open Science Prize is looking for cool ideas for Open Data and health. How about something awesome with Wikidata?
- The Individual Engagement Grant for StrepHit has been accepted
- Are you between 13 and 17? Join us for Google Code-in and do some Wikidata tasks with Wikimedia
- We want your feedback on how to improve the process of showcasing Wikidata's best content
- I dreamed of a perfect database - Wikidata? ;-)
- Histropedia timeline of National Library of Wales
- Wikinews, Wikispecies and MediaWiki now have access to the data on Wikidata. Do awesome things with it, sisters! Meta will follow on 15th.
- Map of narrative locations in Denmark
- Experimental REST API for Wikidata
Did you know?
- Newest properties: deprecated in version, issued by, MediaWiki hooks used, superpartner of, has superpartner, natural abundance, Genius artist ID, ODIS ID, FAO risk status, conversion to SI base unit, Soccerway player ID, Sandbox-Property
- Newest Database reports: WikiProject Movies/new films
- Showcase items: Bertus Aafjes
Development
- Polished the patch that adds icons to the item pages (for actions like edit, remove etc) and makes them cleaner. This will go live later today.
- Worked more on a separate section for identifiers
- Started working on the sorting of statements on the ArticlePlaceholder pages
- Made it possible to use unknown language, no linguistic content and more as languages for the monolingual text datatype
- Experimented more with improvements to the ranking on Special:Search
- Worked on showing more languages in the in other languages box than the ones defined in your babel boxes
- Small improvements to recent changes/watchlist integration on Wikipedia and co
- Worked on making it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item
- Worked on PHP7 support
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)

15:48، 8 ديسمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #188

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikidata: knowledge from different points of view (Signpost op-ed on knowledge diversity and our thinking on data quality)
- The Wikimedia Foundation Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for Wikimania 2016 (deadline: 09 January 2016 23:59 UTC)
- Wikidata: A platform for data integration and dissemination for the life sciences and beyond received the prize for best paper at SWAT4LS. Congrats!
- Past: 50 hours of Wikidata and Wikipedia editing at Museo Soumaya
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Over 16.000 people have contributed to Wikidata over the last month.
- Wikidata Analyst, a tool to help comprehensively analyze the quality of Wikidata (announcement)
- Overview of the current state of Sum of all Paintings and how you can help by Multichill
- query.wikidata.org now more prominently shows example queries in case you missed them before, lets you filter and gives you a preview for them. Additionally you can click a little magnifying glass next to an item ID in a query result and explore it further.
- WikiJourney now has a first release on the Play Store
Did you know?
Development
- Working on sorting of statement groups for the ArticlePlaceholder extension
- Further work on a separate section for identifiers
- Worked on properly linking identifiers in the exports
- Removed a number of lines and boxes in the statement section to make it less busy
- Made it possible to create a redirect over a deleted item without having to undelete it first
- Further work on improving ranking on Special:Search
- Making it possible to show and edit more languages for labels/descriptions/aliases than the ones defined in your babel boxes
- Getting ready for the holidays :)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:30، 14 ديسمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Get involved in Wikipedia 15!

This is a message from the Wikimedia Foundation. Translations are available.

As many of you know, January 15 is Wikipedia’s 15th Birthday!

People around the world are getting involved in the celebration and have started adding their events on Meta Page. While we are celebrating Wikipedia's birthday, we hope that all projects and affiliates will be able to utilize this celebration to raise awareness of our community's efforts.

Haven’t started planning? Don’t worry, there’s lots of ways to get involved. Here are some ideas:

Join/host an event. We already have more than 80, and hope to have many more.
Talk to local press. In the past 15 years, Wikipedia has accomplished extraordinary things. We’ve made a handy summary of milestones and encourage you to add your own. More resources, including a press release template and resources on working with the media, are also available.
Design a Wikipedia 15 logo. In place of a single icon for Wikipedia 15, we’re making dozens. Add your own with something fun and representative of your community. Just use the visual guide so they share a common sensibility.
Share a message on social media. Tell the world what Wikipedia means to you, and add #wikipedia15 to the post. We might re-tweet or share your message!

Everything is linked on the Wikipedia 15 Meta page. You’ll find a set of ten data visualization works that you can show at your events, and a list of all the Wikipedia 15 logos that community members have already designed.

If you have any questions, please contact Zachary McCune or Joe Sutherland.

Thanks and Happy nearly Wikipedia 15!
-The Wikimedia Foundation Communications team

Posted by the MediaWiki message delivery, 20:58، 18 ديسمبر 2015 (ت ع م) • ⧼please-translate⧽ • مساعدة

Password Policy RFC

مرحبا

لقد فتحنا المجال لطلب التعقيب على موقع ميتا بشأن رفع مستوى متطلبات كلمة السر للمستخدمين الذين لديهم حسابات لديها صلاحية تحرير MediaWiki:Common.js أو يمكنهم الوصول إلى خاصية التحقق من المستخدمين أو يمكنهم الوصول إلى Oversight.

تحظى مثل هذه الحسابات بإمكانية وصول خاصة على مواقعنا وقد ينتج عنها أضرار جسيمة لو وقعت في أيدي غير أمينة. المتطلبات الحالية هي كلمة سر لا تقل عن حرف واحد فقط. ونود أن نجعل الحد الأدنى هو ثمانية أحرف (بايت) وكذلك حظر استخدام كلمات سر شائعة على وجه التحديد.

نأمل عن طريق رفع مستوى متطلبات كلمة السر للحسابات التي تحظى بمستويات وصول عليا إلى جعل مواقع مؤسسة ويكيميديا أأمن للجميع. يرجى الاطلاع على النص الكامل للاقتراح على هذا الرابط وكذلك الادلاء بصوتك على هذا الطلب

مع الشكر

(نيابة عن فريق الأمان التابع لمؤسسة ويكيميديا) BWolff (WMF) (talk) 06:50، 21 ديسمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

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Community Wishlist Survey

(Apologies for posting this in English. Translations are very welcome.)

Hi everyone,

The 2015 Community Wishlist Survey is over, and now the Community Tech team's work begins on the top 10 features and fixes.

In November and December 2015, we invited contributors from all Wikimedia projects to submit proposals for what they would like the Community Tech team to work on for the purpose of improving or producing curation and moderation tools for active contributors.

634 people participated in the survey, where they proposed, discussed and voted on 107 ideas. There was a two-week period in November to submit and endorse proposals, followed by two weeks of voting. The top 10 proposals with the most support votes now become the Community Tech team's backlog of projects to evaluate and address.

You can see the whole list with links to all the proposals and Phabricator tickets on this page: 2015 Community Wishlist Survey.

For everybody who proposed, endorsed, discussed, debated and voted in the survey, as well as everyone who said nice things to us recently: thank you very much for coming out and supporting live feature development. We're excited about the work ahead of us. --DannyH (WMF) (نقاش) 21:40، 21 ديسمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #189

Wikidata weekly summary #186

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Eurodyne
Events/Blogs/Press
- World Health Summit yearbook for 2015
- You can apply for a scholarship to attend Wikimania 2016 (deadline: January 9th)
- Talk submissions for Wikimania 2016 are open. We'd love to see many Wikidata-related submissions. If you need help with your submission contact Lydia.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Google has launched the Knowledge Graph Search API, replacing the deprecated Freebase API
- Meta now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
- Want to get an overview of the classes and properties on Wikidata? The Miga class and property browser was updated.
- WikiBrowser - semantically browse Wikipedia with the help of Wikidata
- WikiFamou.us lets you compare topics by popularity across languages with the help of Wikidata
- Chronas is a history project linking Wikipedia and Wikidata with a chronological and cartographical view
- Visiting some place for the holidays? Check out the items nearby.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Fashion Model Directory magazine ID, Fashion Model Directory designer ID, Artsy gene, WikiPathways ID, NII Article ID, set in period, short-term exposure limit, maximum peak exposure limit, ceiling exposure limit, time-weighted average exposure limit, Total assets, total expenditure, Six Degrees of Francis Bacon ID
- Query example: works created by females who died in 1945
Development
- <3 Thanks for being awesome. Enjoy the holidays :)
- We will take the "in other projects"-sidebar out of beta features in January (phabricator:T103102)
- Making ranking information like label and statement counts available to the CirrusSearch index in order to improve ranking in search results (phabricator:T110648)
- Continued work on the identifier data type for identifiers like VIAF and ISBN so we can easily put them into a separate section in the items and properly link them in the exports (phabricator:T95682, phabricator:T121274)
- Continued work on making external identifiers clickable links without the help of the authority control gadget (phabricator:T95684)
- Fixed a mistake in the set reference API documentation (gerrit:259171)
- More work on cleaning up the statement section (phabricator:T121390)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:59، 21 ديسمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

الفحم القاري (Bituminous Coal)

الفحم القاري

This article currently points to a redirect of قطران الفحم (en:coal tar) when it should point to en:Bituminous coal. Would someone be able to assist me with creating a stub article under that heading?Dcmacnut (نقاش) 18:34، 22 ديسمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Done. Orionist (نقاش) 10:55، 10 يونيو 2016 (ت ع م)

VisualEditor News #6—2015

Did you know?

A new, simpler system for editing will offer a single Edit button. Once the page has opened, you can switch back and forth between visual and wikitext editing.

If you prefer having separate edit buttons, then you can set that option in your preferences, either in a pop-up dialog the next time you open the visual editor, or by going to Special:Preferences and choosing the setting that you want:

The current plan is for the default setting to have the Edit button open the editing environment you used most recently.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter

Since the last newsletter, the visual editor team has fixed many bugs and expanded the mathematics formula tool. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for languages such as Japanese and Arabic, and providing rich-media tools for formulæ, charts, galleries and uploading.

Recent improvements

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. The LaTeX mathematics formula editor has been significantly expanded. (T118616) You can see the formula as you change the LaTeX code. You can click buttons to insert the correct LaTeX code for many symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "عدِّل" and "عدل المصدر" tabs into a single "عدِّل" tab, like the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398, T58337) Initially, the "عدِّل" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as a cookie for logged-out users and as an account preference for logged-in editors. Logged-in editors will be able to set a default editor in the التحرير tab of Special:Preferences in the drop-down menu about "وضع التحرير:".

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the following Wikipedias in early 2016: Amharic, Buginese, Min Dong, Cree, Manx, Hakka, Armenian, Georgian, Pontic, Serbo-Croatian, Tigrinya, Mingrelian, Zhuang, and Min Nan. (T116523) Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. The developers would like to know how well it works. Please tell them what kind of computer, web browser, and keyboard you are using.

In 2016, the feedback pages for the visual editor on many Wikipedias will be redirected to mediawiki.org. (T92661)

Testing opportunities

Please try the new system for the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You can edit while logged out to see how it works for logged-out editors, or you can create a separate account to be able to set your account's preferences. Please share your thoughts about the single edit tab system at the feedback topic on mediawiki.org or sign up for formal user research (type "single edit tab" in the question about other areas you're interested in). The new system has not been finalized, and your feedback can affect the outcome. The team particularly wants your thoughts about the options in Special:Preferences. The current choices in Special:Preferences are:
- تذكر آخر محرر عدلت به,
- أظهر المحرر المرئي كلما أمكن,
- أعطني محرر المصدر دائما, and
- أظهر تبويبي المحررين. (This is the current state for people already using the visual editor. None of these options will be visible if you have disabled the visual editor in your preferences at that wiki.)
Can you read and type in Korean or Japanese? Language engineer David Chan needs people who know which tools people use to type in some languages. If you speak Japanese or Korean, you can help him test support for these languages. Please see the instructions at What to test if you can help, and report it on Phabricator (Korean - Japanese) or on Wikipedia (Korean - Japanese).

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. شكرًا لك!

Elitre (WMF), 00:06، 25 ديسمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #190

Wikidata weekly summary #186

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: 32C3
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Upcoming: StrepHit IEG project kick-off seminar
- Upcoming: Office hour on IRC
- Upcoming: FOSDEM (Lucie will give a talk about the ArticlePlaceholder extension)
- Registration and scholarship applications for the Wikimedia Hackathon in Israel are open
- Don't forget your talk submissions for Wikimania 2016. Lydia can help if needed.
- Getting CAS registry numbers out of WikiData
- The quality of SMILES strings in Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Did you know?
- Newest properties: number of awards, Prosopographia Attica, Structurae person ID, stage classification, sports disciplines competed in, personal best, substrate of
Development
- Some small bugfixes and tweaks.
- Enjoying the holidays and editing on Wikidata. Hope you are too :)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:07، 28 ديسمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

?What IdeaLab campaigns do you want to see

⧼Please-translate⧽

Hey folks. I’m seeking your help to decide on topics for new IdeaLab campaigns that could be .run starting next year These campaigns are designed to attract proposals from Wikimedia project contributors that address a broad gap or area of need .in Wikimedia projects

Here’s how to participate

Learn more about this consultation and review submitted campaign topics
Vote on and submit new campaign topics in the AllOurIdeas Survey (in English)
Discuss campaign topics and ask questions on the IdeaLab talk page

With thanks, --I JethroBT (WMF) (نقاش) 20:35، 29 ديسمبر 2015 (ت ع م)

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships - Deadline soon!

⧼Please-translate⧽

A reminder - applications for scholarships for Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, Italy, are closing soon! Please get your applications in by January 9th. To apply, visit the page below:

Wikimania 2016 Scholarships

Patrick Earley (WMF) via MediaWiki message delivery (نقاش) 01:49، 5 يناير 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #191

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- Successful request for adminship: Innocent bystander
Events/Blogs/Press
- The Reference Wars
- Teaching machines to make your life easier – quality work on Wikidata
- Wikidata references from Microdata
- Building applications around Wikidata (a beer example)
- From Freebase to Wikidata: the great migration has been accepted for the industry track of WWW2016
- Gene Wiki and Wikidata: an overview of 2015
- Past: 32C3 in Hamburg
- Past: Wikimedia Developer Summit
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A Visual Introduction to Machine Learning
- The deadline for submissions for Wikimania has been extended to 17th. Get your talk proposals in!
- IUCN statuses have been removed from taxoboxes in Czech Wikipedia in order to display sourced Wikidata data. Check it out with Comodo dragon, lion, Siamese fighting fish or any of almost 3,000 articles.
- Migrating identifier properties to new identifier datatype
- Listeria lists can now show arbitrary SPARQL results
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs like UNESCO's Atlas of languages in danger
- Initial plans for MetaPipe, a collaborate metadata tool
Did you know?
Development
- Attending the Wikimedia Developer Summit
- Are you a student looking for a thesis topic with impact? There might be some around Wikidata for you. Get in touch with Lydia if interested.
- More work on moving identifiers to their own section and having a separate datatype for them
- Fixed the problem where you could add links to non-existing files on Commons (phabricator:T87263)
- We're adding a "latest" link for the JSON dumps (phabricator:T72247)
- Fixed a bug in the monolingual text datatype when changing the language (phabricator:T95419)
- More work on making it possible to show all languages for a given item without the label lister gadget
- Security review for the ArticlePlaceholder is done \o/
- References in the ArticlePlaceholder are now shown more similar to how they are shown in a regular article (at the bottom)
- SPARQL queries display directly when link to query.wikidata.org is opened
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:50، 10 يناير 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #192

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Wikipedia turned 15. Happy birthday, big sister!
- Doing research on Wikidata? Consider submitting to OpenSym.
- Past: ODI summit (video of talk "Making every human gene accessible and linkable" by Andra Waagmeester)
- Past: StrepHit IEG kick-off (video, slides)
- Upcoming: ORCID outreach meeting
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Module:Cycling race generates a list of stages and winners for cycling races
- Great use of the Listeria bot to create an artwork gallery
- Wikidata-lang - library to get language code from a Wikidata item for a language
- Live-stream of Wikidata edits by Magnus
- Wikipedia tools for Google Spreadsheet now has a Wikidata function
- Yair rand wrote a user script to experiment with how changes are shown in recent changes and watchlist
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Theatricalia person ID, Theatricalia theatre ID, Global Geoparks Network ID, judicial sentence, allcinema film identifier
Development
- Students worked on new datatype to capture mathematical expressions (phabricator:T67397)
- Updated property suggester data to give you more up-to-date suggestions when adding new statements
- Pages in the module namespace now also get interwiki links (phabricator:T123234)
- Reduced number of resource loader modules to improve performance (phabricator:T123233)
- Started experimenting with showing an image in the header area (phabricator:T119493)
- Fixed a bug where the query text would be moved off the screen on the query service website (phabricator:T120196)
- Worked on the remaining blocker for taking the in other projects sidebar out of beta. We need to link to the Commons category and not gallery for articles without frying the servers (phabricator:T94989)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:21، 18 يناير 2016 (ت ع م)

2016 WMF Strategy consultation

⧼Please-translate⧽

Hello, all.

The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) has launched a consultation to help create and prioritize WMF strategy beginning July 2016 and for the 12 to 24 months thereafter. This consultation will be open, on Meta, from 18 January to 26 February, after which the Foundation will also use these ideas to help inform its Annual Plan. (More on our timeline can be found on that Meta page.)

Your input is welcome (and greatly desired) at the Meta discussion, 2016 Strategy/Community consultation.

Apologies for English, where this is posted on a non-English project. We thought it was more important to get the consultation translated as much as possible, and good headway has been made there in some languages. There is still much to do, however! We created m:2016 Strategy/Translations to try to help coordinate what needs translation and what progress is being made. :)

If you have questions, please reach out to me on my talk page or on the strategy consultation's talk page or by email to [email protected].

I hope you'll join us! Maggie Dennis via MediaWiki message delivery (نقاش) 19:06، 18 يناير 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #193

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: office hour on IRC with review of the past quarter, outlook on the next and discussion (log)
- Right now: Magnus Manske Day! Thank you for all you are doing to make Wikidata truly shine! We owe you a ton.
- Upcoming: FOSDEM
- Upcoming: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Magnus has a script that lets you drag statements from Wikipedia articles
- Changes in how authentication in MediaWiki is handled are being rolled out (and more coming). [1] Ordinary users and gadgets / user scripts should not be affected but bots may need to be adjusted. pywikibot already supports [2] OAuth authentication, though bot operators need to set that up for their bot.
- Littar won second prize in Danish Library Center app competition
- Wikidata Graph Builder
- Help with matching up Wikipedia articles and Wikidata items. Here for example women on dewiki.
- You can give input on WMF's strategy
- Looking for small Wikipedias to try the ArticlePlaceholder
- Mix'n'match got new catalogs (for example UNESCO Man and the Biosphere Reserves and FAST)
- Wikimedia Sverige got a $300.000 grant for the Connected Open Heritage project on Wikidata
- French Wikipedia now has modified fr:Modèle:Bibliographie to use Wikidata
Did you know?
Development
- Investigated and fixed a critical bug in HHVM (phabricator:T124276)
- Investigated language support in MediaWiki and Wikibase to allow more languages in monolingual text and disallow some non-sense for label/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T78006)
- Fixed missing license info and broken links for Wikibase libraries on Special:Version
- Working on improving scoring of search results on Wikidata, on Special:Search
- Preparing to take the "in other projects" sidebar out of beta features, with the Wikimedia Commons link going to the Commons category (phabricator:T103102, phabricator:T94989)
- Amir and Aaron are turning ORES into an extension to make it easier for you to spot bad edits \o/
- Final touches on putting identifiers into their own section (phabricator:T117421)
- Switching the in other languages box to be expanded by default for new people (phabricator:T92387)
- More experimenting with adding an image to the header area (phabricator:T119493)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:10، 25 يناير 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #194

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Replicator: Wikidata import tool
- The Facebook of German Playwrights
- Language usage on Wikidata
- Past: FOSDEM (slides of talk by Lucie)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Please help us classify a bunch of edits to improve anti-vandalism tools on Wikidata
- Over 18000 people who made at least one edit over the last month!
- some visualizations:
- KasparBot is now removing all PersonData template usages from English Wikipedia. They added machine-readable information to articles.
- Wikiversity will get the first phase of Wikidata support (language links) on February 23rd.
- Upcoming deployments of new datatypes, In Other Projects Sidebar, Article Placeholder and more
- WD-FIST now supports SPARQL queries
Did you know?
- Newest properties: National Historic Sites of Canada ID
- Query example: horses, French sculptors by year of birth
- Newest external tools: Template:Complex constraint
- Newest database reports: Help:Wikimedia language codes/lists/all
- New feature/gadget requests: badge for templates using Wikidata
Development
- und, mis, mul and zxx will be supported language codes for monolingual text. More will come later.
- Working on adjusting the layout of the ArticlePlaceholder generated pages
- Final touches on making search work on mobile
- Finishing identifier datatype and section
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:45، 1 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

The visual editor is coming to this wiki

Hello. Please excuse the English. ⧼Please-translate⧽. شكرًا لك!

Hi everybody,

My name is Erica, and I am a Community Liaison at the Wikimedia Foundation. I'm here to let you know that the visual editor is coming to editors at this Wikipedia soon. It allows people to edit Wikipedia articles as if they were using word processing software.

You don't have to wait until the deployment to test it; you can test the visual editor right now. To turn it on, select "⧼betafeatures-toplink⧽" in your preferences. Choose "المحرر المرئي" and click save. When it is enabled, you will press the "عدِّل" button to edit an article in the new software. To use the wikitext editor, you can press "عدل المصدر".

After the deployment, everyone will automatically have the option to use either the visual editor or the current wikitext editor. For more information about how to use the visual editor, see mw:Help:VisualEditor/User guide.

More information about preparing for the visual editor is posted here.

It's easier to add templates if you've added TemplateData information.
Please help translate the user interface and pages about the visual editor. See the visual editor's TranslationCentral for general information. To translate the user guide, go to the MediaWiki.org page, and select "⧼translate-tag-translate-link-desc⧽". Your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've done this, you'll see the document in English, side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or change old translations. To translate the user interface, you need to create an account at translatewiki.net. Contact me personally if you need help with that.
Please let us know if you find any problems. You can report issues in Phabricator, the new bug tracking system or on the central feedback page on MediaWiki.org. If you notice major issues affecting your project, please leave a note on my talk page.
Wrong target page? Fix it here • Sign up for the visual editor's multilingual newsletter

Thank you, and happy editing! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 18:29، 5 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

جينيفيف هانيليوس

I have an edit conflict with an anonymous user on this page. The user is basing his/her information based on celebriot.com, a not so trustworthy website. The disclaimer on the site says * The information on CelebRiot can't be guaranteed for accuracy. IMDb and VIAF disagree with that site, as they both say she was born in 1998. Can someone take action against the anonymous user? Mbch331 (نقاش) 13:49، 6 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #195

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- Open request for adminship: HakanIST
Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Open Science Meetup, Berlin
- Slides for "Wikidata for biomedical knowledge integration and curation" talk
- Wiki Workshop 2016 could use some researchy Wikidata submissions
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- How much does a Wikipedia use Wikidata data? Stats are in the total entity usage flags graph here (select project at the top left)
- How many statements does the average item or property on Wikidata have? Here are the stats.
- What are the most viewed pages on Wikidata?
- We still need your help with classifying edits to build better anti-vandalism tools. We're halfway done by now.
- Andrew updated his maps
- We crossed edit 300,000,000!
- Graph example: matrices
- Taxonomy of WikiProject municipalities of Germany is completed. Feedback welcome.
- Last call for comments on the new process for showcase items at d:User:Harmonia Amanda/Showcase items. Please review and comment on the associated talk page.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Box Office Mojo studio ID, Box Office Mojo franchise ID, ČSFD film ID, Richter magnitude scale, moment magnitude scale
Development
- Search now works on mobile
- Groundwork for adding new entity types to move us forward with support for structured data on Commons. (Other entity types are Item and Property. We'll need Mediainfo for Commons.)
- Daniel summarized upcoming changes for new datatypes
- Investigated further options for performance improvement (phabricator:T125502)
- Indexing labels in elastic properly (phabricator:T125500)
- More work on cleaning up language codes (phabricator:T125063, phabricator:T124757)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 21:42، 8 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #196

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
- Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
- We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
- WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
- Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
- WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
- Autolist now supports SPARQL
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
- A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
- Hay created a new property browser
- Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression, defining formula, WomenWriters ID, lowest atmospheric pressure
Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
- UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
- Work on properly linking identifiers
- Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
- Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
- Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
- Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
- Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 09:56، 16 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #196

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Ongoing: Series of Wikidata/ GLAM talks in Perth, Australia and Indonesia by Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing). Also social meetups.
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Ambrosiani created a map of museums in Sweden, colored after what information is available on Wikidata (source code)
- Dormant string properties wake-up effort in progress
- We have a new page to discuss and coordinate data partnerships and imports
- WikiProject Medicine has a new page related to information about Zika
- Magnus hacked up a Knowledge Engine, to discover information cross-project
- WDFIST is the first of Magnus' tool to let you convert WDQ to SPARQL with one click
- Autolist now supports SPARQL
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: WomenWriters and UNESCO Global Geopark Network
- A new datatype for mathematical expressions is now available
- Wikidata Toolkit 0.6.0 has been released
- Hay created a new property browser
- Analysis of how lifespans change over time, using Wikidata data for people with enwp article
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Sandbox-Mathematical expression, defining formula, WomenWriters ID, lowest atmospheric pressure
Development
- Work on first prototype for Commons support - specifically by making it possible to have more entity types than just Item and Property (phabricator:T125822)
- UI performance work (loading time of entities, things should be faster when editing statements) (phabricator:T125391, phabricator:T125503)
- Work on properly linking identifiers
- Removed a bunch of language codes from monolingual text (phabricator:T125063)
- Work on RDF export of mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T126349)
- Fixed a bug where the uniqueness of label+description wasn't checked properly (phabricator:T121395)
- Moved the repository for WikidataBuildResources from Github to gerrit (phabricator:T111173)
- Made search work properly on mobile (phabricator:T85368)
- Released Wikibase DataModel 5.0 (phabricator:T125636)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 09:58، 16 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #197

Wikidata weekly summary #186

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Paper; From Freebase to Wikidata: The Great Migration
- Podcast: Leetkultur: Datenbanken kuratieren
- Upcoming: Ateliers Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- In order to deploy the ORES extension on Wikidata we need a few more people to help with a labeling campaign. ORES will help us a lot with anti-vandalism fighting.
- Timeline of Zika papers
- A Wikidata/DBpedia Geography of Violence
- The museum map now works for all countries
- Biblioteca Nacional de España has been added to Mix'n'match
- Wikidata BEACON has been switched to use SPARQL
- Nice Wikidata-filled infobox used across different Wikipedias
- Reasonator has been switched to SPARQL and got new examples
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Strand orientation, perimeter, sidekick of, bowling style, acceptable daily intake, operating area, Aarne–Thompson–Uther Tale Type Index, Nationalmuseum Sweden artwork ID, Nationalmuseum Sweden artist ID, Free Software Directory entry, Sandbox-External identifier
- Newest WikiProjects: Religions, Award
- Query example: natural numbers
Development
- The in other projects sidebar has graduated from beta features and is now turned on on all projects except Dutch Wikipedia. (They have their own hack.) This closes a wish that has been around since 2004 \o/ (phabricator:T2708)
- The new datatype for external identifiers is available and we are converting existing identifiers
- Input needed on caching for the query service
- Added a new identifiers section in items. Everything with datatype external identifier goes there now. Once we have all identifiers converted items should be easier to scan and understand because of the clearer structure.
- We have a patch upcoming that should reduce loading time of items with a lot of sitelinks by 25%
- Fixed a bug where you could not add statements with external identifier or mathematical expression datatype (phabricator:T127095)
- More groundwork for Commons (making it possible to have more entities than just items and properties)
- Wikidata Query Service now supports all commonly used prefixes by default, without explicit declaration.
- wikidata-sdk ships with a #SPARQL query url generator
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 22:23، 22 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

أم كلثوم (مطربة)

Hi! As correct

أمّ كلثوم

or

أم كلثوم

Мастер теней (نقاش) 14:36، 26 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م) ?

Reminder: the visual editor is coming to this wiki soon

Hello again. Please excuse the English. ⧼Please-translate⧽. شكرًا لك!

This is a reminder that the visual editor is coming to all editors at this Wikipedia soon. As of this writing, the team is not aware of any issues specific to this language that should prevent the new software to be deployed here; therefore, please do let us know if you find any problems instead. You can report issues in Phabricator, the new bug tracking system or on the central feedback page on MediaWiki.org. There is a short guide at mediawiki.org that you can follow (as if it was a "checklist") to learn about the community work necessary to adapt the visual editor, and its referencing system in particular, to your community's needs.

If you can translate from English into this wiki's language, or know anyone who can, please follow the links below; just a little effort is required to make this language progress toward translations' completion! You'll help your community get the best possible experience when it comes to interface messages and documentation related to the visual editor. After you click on any links, your language should be available from the drop-down menu on the right. Once you've selected it, you'll see the document in English side by side with any translation work already done in your language. You can add new translations or modify existing ones. The interface is hosted at https://translatewiki.net; you'll need an account if you never translated there before. The other pages are at Mediawiki.org, for which you can use your regular Wikipedia account. You're welcome to contact me personally whenever you need help.

Interface messages
User Guide

Thank you for your cooperation, and happy editing! --Elitre (WMF) (talk) 16:35، 26 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

VisualEditor News #1—2016

Read this in another language • Subscription list for this multilingual newsletter

Did you know?

Among experienced editors, the visual editor's table editing is one of the most popular features.

If you select the top of a column or the end of a row, you can quickly insert and remove columns and rows.

Now, you can also rearrange columns and rows. Click "Move before" or "Move after" to swap the column or row with its neighbor.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Indic, and Han scripts, and improving the single edit tab interface.

Recent changes

You can switch from the wikitext editor to the visual editor after you start editing. This function is available to nearly all editors at most wikis except the Wiktionaries and Wikisources.

Many local feedback pages for the visual editor have been redirected to mw:VisualEditor/Feedback.

You can now re-arrange columns and rows in tables, as well as copying a row, column or any other selection of cells and pasting it in a new location.

The formula editor has two options: you can choose "Quick edit" to see and change only the LaTeX code, or "Edit" to use the full tool. The full tool offers immediate preview and an extensive list of symbols.

Future changes

The single edit tab project will combine the "عدِّل" and "عدل المصدر" tabs into a single "عدِّل" tab. This is similar to the system already used on the mobile website. (T102398) Initially, the "عدِّل" tab will open whichever editing environment you used last time. Your last editing choice will be stored as an account preference for logged-in editors, and as a cookie for logged-out users. Logged-in editors will have these options in the التحرير tab of Special:Preferences:

تذكر آخر محرر عدلت به,
أظهر المحرر المرئي كلما أمكن,
أعطني محرر المصدر دائما, and
أظهر تبويبي المحررين. (This is the state for people using the visual editor now.)

The visual editor uses the same search engine as Special:Search to find links and files. This search will get better at detecting typos and spelling mistakes soon. These improvements to search will appear in the visual editor as well.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at most "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. This will affect the following languages, amongst others: Japanese, Korean, Urdu, Persian, Arabic, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Hindi, Bengali, Assamese, Thai, Aramaic.

Let's work together

Please try out the newest version of the single edit tab on test2.wikipedia.org. You may need to restore the default preferences (at the bottom of test2wiki:Special:Preferences) to see the initial prompt for options. Were you able to find a preference setting that will work for your own editing? Did you see the large preferences dialog box when you started editing an article there?
Can you read and type in Korean, Arabic, Japanese, Indic, or Han scripts? Does typing in these languages feels natural in the visual editor? Language engineer David Chan needs to know. Please see the instructions at mw:VisualEditor/IME Testing#What to test if you can help. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org.
Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Join the Tech Talk about "Automated citations in Wikipedia: Citoid and the technology behind it" with Sebastian Karcher on 29 February 2016.

If you aren't reading this in your favorite language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. شكرًا لك!

Elitre (WMF), 19:21، 26 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #198

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Wikiversity is now supported by Wikidata as well. Language links can be maintained on Wikidata now. Access to the data will follow. Welcome, sister!
- Wikidata now has cross-wiki notifications as a beta feature. You can enable it in your preferences. Once enabled you will see notifications you received on the other Wikimedia wikis.
- A major German newspaper used Wikidata's data for their Oscar coverage
- Amir is making progress on vandalism detection but needs your help. He also set up an IRC feed for unpatrolled edits with a high likelihood of being vandalism.
- Property:P1367 ("BBC Your Paintings artist-ID") has become "Art UK artist identifier". Identifier values were replaced.
- The number of claims on each item is to be included in the "page property" database table. For some items where it had been missing, it was recently added. This leads to improved coverage by database reports: without claims by site.
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs: Artists of the Nationalmuseum in Sweden and Encyclopædia Britannica
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Köppen climate classification, superhuman feature or ability, married name, name, GPU, Wikidata usage instructions, autores.uy database id, stroke, bore, fee, production designer, in work, quantitative metrical pattern, used metre, recording or performance of, Italian Senate of the Republic ID
- Query example: battles
Development
- Wikidata Query Service has been upgraded to Blazegraph 2.0
- Wikidata Query Service now allows to view images linked from Commons and display image galley if the query result has images. Example: Paintings by Gustav Klimt
- More groundwork for Commons support
- Fixed a bug with slashes in URLs for identifiers (phabricator:T128078)
- Fixed a bug in Special:NewItem which prevented submission of the form (phabricator:T128075)
- More performance work
- In diffs for mathematical expressions we're now also showing the TeX source to make it possible to see changes that do not affect the rendering of the formula (phabricator:T125712)
- More work on cleaning up languages for multilingual text values and labels/descriptions/aliases
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 22:00، 29 فبراير 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #199

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Oscars 2016: Movies that got the most attention on Wikipedia (followup with most famous cats)
- Statements per item
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Québec cultural heritage directory people identifier, grammatical option indicates, Statistics Indonesia language code, Statistics Indonesia ethnicity code, village code of Indonesia, has phoneme, INSEE departement code, INSEE region code, Australian Wetlands Database Directory of Important Wetlands Reference Code, distance from Earth, J. Paul Getty Museum object id, BabelNet id, Baltisches Biographisches Lexikon digital ID, studied by, studies, admissible rule in, UCSC Genome Browser assembly ID, measures, National-Football-Teams.com player ID, number of out of school children, Twitter hashtag, uncertainty corresponds to, Saros cycle of eclipse, contact times of eclipse, repealed by, amended by, ECHA InfoCard ID, global-warming potential
- Query example: French heads of government by length of service, Metro stations in Paris
Development
- Lucie and Charlie handed in their Bachelor theses on the Article Placeholder and Editing Wikidata from Wikipedia. Work on both topics will continue. We'll publish both theses soon. A big congrats to both of them!
- More work on the first prototype for Commons support (phabricator:T125822)
- Continued working on improving language support for monolingual text and labels/descriptions/aliases (phabricator:T125066)
- Conversion of properties from string to external identifier datatype is ongoing
- Experimenting with putting query results on a map in query.wikidata.org (earthquakes, ski resorts)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 20:39، 7 مارس 2016 (ت ع م)

ورشة عمل حول التحرش

مرحبا!

هذه رسالة لإعلام الجميع حول ورشة عمل حول التحرش التي تعقد حاليا على الميتاويكي. ورشة العمل هذه هي مكان لمناقشة طرق تحسين كيف نتعامل مع حالات التحرش على مشاريع ويكيميديا. نتطلع إلى مشاركتكم لنا قريبا!

أرق الأماني، فريق الأمان والدعم عبر MediaWiki message delivery (نقاش) 16:12، 11 مارس 2016 (ت ع م)

ورشة عمل حول التحرش

مرحبا!

هذه رسالة لإعلام الجميع حول ورشة عمل حول التحرش التي تعقد حاليا على الميتاويكي. ورشة العمل هذه هي مكان لمناقشة طرق تحسين كيف نتعامل مع حالات التحرش على مشاريع ويكيميديا. نتطلع إلى مشاركتكم لنا قريبا!

أرق الأماني، فريق الأمان والدعم عبر MediaWiki message delivery (نقاش) 17:12، 11 مارس 2016 (ت ع م)

Completion Suggester inital rollout

سوف تطبق تحديثات على خاصية الإكمال التلقائي في خانة بحث ويكي بدءا من يوم 16 مارس/آذار

مرحبا!

⧼Please-translate⧽. شكرًا لك!

أصبحت خاصية مقترح الإكمال التجريبية الخاصية الافتراضية في المجموعة الأولى من مواقع ويكي يوم الخميس 10 مارس/آذار. وقد استهل هذا الاستخدام على بعض مواقع الويكي الصغيرة للتأكد من أن التغيير حدث بشكل منظم. سوف يستخدم هذا التحديث على مواقع الويكي الأخرى يوم الأربعاء 16 مارس/آذار. يتيح هذا التحديث ثلاثة تحسينات كبيرة على خاصية البحث. وهي تحسين ترتيب نتائج البحث وإغفال عدد محدود من الأخطاء الإملائية واقتراح عدد أقل من الأخطاء الطباعية.

منذ ديسمبر/كانون الأول 2015، سجل 19,000 محرر بالفعل استخدامهم لخاصية مقترح الإكمال التجريبية. كما نقترح على المساهمين تجربة هذه الخاصية قبل استخدامها العام. يرجى مشاركة أية تعليقات على صفحة نقاش مقترح الإكمال بأية لغة.

لتتعرفوا على المزيد عن عمل قسم الاستكشاف والتحسينات الأخرى على خاصية البحث، يرجى الإطلاع على مدونة ويكيميديا. اقرأ المزيد عن CirrusSearch، امتداد ميديا ويكي الذي يجعل من خاصية البحث في مواقع الويكي أمرا ممكنا.

- CKoerner (WMF) (talk) 19:50، 14 مارس 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #200

Wikidata weekly summary #186

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: WikiArabia
- Upcoming: Wikimedia Hackathon
- Upcoming: digikult.se
- Wikidata Tour Down-Under
- Open culture session at Open Belgium
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Coming to Wikimania? Consider submitting a Wikidata related poster, training or discussion! Deadline is on the 20th.
- Wikidata has passed the milestone of 1 Billion Datapoints (Triples) on Wednesday, 9th of March.
- Wikidata Graph Builder now supports arbitrary SPARQL queries (example)
- ESWC 2016 has a new Wikidata Bonus Challenge
- Playing with Wikidata in BigQuery
- There will be server maintenance work next week on all Wikimedia servers that will prevent editing for a short time.
- Wikidata external ID resolver now uses SPARQL and supports lookup of properties via English name (fragment)
- iSpecies now has multilingual summaries and links to Wikidata (example)
- Awarder lets you add awards to a biographical item, or use the Wikipedia text of the award to add all recipients]
- A new version of the Wikidata nuclide chart is online
Did you know?
- Newest properties: thickness, World Heritage criteria (2005), Valencian Property of Local Relevance id, BookBrainz creator ID, PlayStation ID, ČSFD person ID, Kinopoisk person ID, Kinopoisk film ID, Hockeydb.com player ID, Eurohockey.com player ID, Geni.com profile ID, block size, serial number, Gram staining, culture, maximum gradient, Latvian Olympic Committee athlete ID
- Query examples: Number of museums by U. S. state on map, Film directors ranked by number of sitelinks multiplied by their number of films, all museums in Barcelona with coordinates, women mushers, women scientists, women artists, air accidents, Twitter accounts of biologists, torture devices, public art in Paris, Locations of Pablo Picasso works
Development
- We reduced the loading time of items significantly. Enjoy a faster Wikidata :)
  Faster!!!
- Wikidata Query GUI now supports maps. Check it out with one of the example queries above. (Select Map under Display results menu).
- Pywikibot now has SPARQL endpoint support.
- We worked on getting the first pieces of Commons support on a test system. Nothing shiny to see yet but we're making progress.
- Converted more identifier to the new identifier datatype. Still some to go but 450 properties have been converted by now.
- Updated the data that generates suggestions when adding a new statement
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:59، 15 مارس 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #201

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- New request for comments: Reforming the property creation process
Events/Blogs/Press
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Dutch language Wikipedia has a consistently low number of articles unconnected to Wikidata: Duplicity statistics for nlwiki
- MusicBrainz now uses Wikidata to fetch images for their entities
- The query service is now linked in the sidebar
- Mix'n'match has new catalogs among them TED speakers
- Maarten made some reports to make it easier to connect paintings on Wikidata with images on Wikimedia Commons
Did you know?
- Newest properties: BBFC rating, German tax authority ID, ISO 9362 SWIFT/BIC code, DNF person ID, PASE ID, MetroLyrics ID, MEK ID, Companies House ID, Site of Special Scientific Interest (England) ID, ISO 15924 numeric code, Hungarian company ID, SHOWA ID, formatterURL for Wikidata ID, World Heritage criteria (2005), TED talk ID, TED topic ID, TED speaker ID
- Query examples: distribution of public art by place
Development
- The query service now has Ctrl+enter as a shortcut to run a query
- Started working on improving input for geocoordinates and dates (changing the advanced settings)
- Worked on database performance improvements for the client (Wikipedia and co) (phabricator:T125838)
- Experimenting with arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons on http://commons.wikimedia.beta.wmflabs.org
- Converted more identifiers from string datatype to identifier datatype
- Worked on improved localization of dates that are very far in the past or future (phabricator:T127820)
- Fixed undo actions going through abuse filter (phabricator:T126861)
- Fixed issues in the query service with Internet Explorer 11
- Improved query service display on small screens
- Improved autocompletion in the query service
- Fixed a bug with an add button for qualifiers being shown when it shouldn't (phabricator:T128317)
- Further work on Wikimedia Commons support (Special Pages, API)
- You can now add a default view to a query like here. This then shows the defined view (map, table, image grid) when executing the query.
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 11:50، 21 مارس 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #202

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Wikidata intro at the École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes (slides)
- Upcoming: IRC office hour
- Upcoming: MediaWiki hackathon
- Migrating pKa data from DrugMet to Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- A little Easter present for the WikiVerse from Magnus
- The page for institutions, companies, etc who want to donate data to Wikidata has been reworked and expanded by John and Jens
- WMDE is looking for a product management intern to work with Lydia
- Arbitrary access for Commons is getting ready and needs testing
Did you know?
- Newest properties: next crossing downstream, next crossing upstream, SOATO ID, Google Knowledge Graph identifier, has parts of the class, discontinued date, variability of property value, corresponding template, Datahub page, alcohol by volume, units sold, tier 1 capital ratio (CETI), consumption rate per capita, target interest rate, topographic prominence, topographic isolation, Scoville grade, EU transparency register ID, FIFA World Ranking, Estyn ID, partnership with, CRICOS Provider Code, interested in, Cycling Quotient url (mens team), Cycling Quotient identifier (races for men), source of material, mirTarBase ID, mean lifetime, Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, FedCup player ID, Davis Cup player ID, Swimrankings.net swimmer ID, Filmportal ID, TV.com ID, RARS rating, Minkultury Film ID, number of parts of a work of art, model, geography, place of detention, Turner Classic Movies film ID, cost of damage
- Query examples: Library and Information Science journals, number of statements backed by a reference with a DOI
Development
- You see that you can now show labels/descriptions/aliases for all languages that have been added to an item by clicking "more languages"
- Preparation for arbitrary access on Commons
- Getting ready for the hackathon in Israel
- More work on making the extended input for geocoordinates and dates less complicated to understand
- Worked on making scrolling of large items less laggy
- Made the query service map visualization no longer show coordinates that are not on earth
- Fixed a bug where the removal of a sitelink couldn't be done (phabricator:T129450)
- Query service no longer restores previous query as requested
- Fixed a bug where adding a statement would leave a stray "add qualifier" link (phabricator:T128317)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #203

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
slides for SPARQL and Wikidata intro by shonagon- École de Bibliothécaires Documentalistes
- Upcoming: WWW 2016
- Upcoming: WikiCite 2016
- Past: Wikimedia hackathon.
  - Some of the things that were worked on (but are not finished yet):
    - Easier referencing like it is done in VisualEditor
    - Data imports including National Library of Israel
    - Getting the ArticlePlaceholder ready for deployment on the first small Wikipedias
    - Updated maps of the geocoordinates in Wikidata (Adam will publish a blog post with them soon)
    - Improvements for Librarybase
    - Automated language links for Wiktionary
    - Cleanup of existing data import tools
  - partial group photo
- Objetos culturales y metadatos: hacia la liberación de datos en Wikidata
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Lucie published her thesis about supporting small Wikipedias through article placeholders based on Wikidata
  Lucie's thesis: Generating Article Placeholders from Wikidata for Wikipedia - Increasing Access to Free and Open Knowledge
- This article from Russian Wikipedia is generated only with Lua Module and Listeria, based on its Wikidata item.
- If you're into Wikidata, GLAM and Facebook there is now a Facebook group for you.
- There are 4 new games to help with the migration of the Persondata template on English Wikipedia.
- There was a huge increase in the number of qualifiers over the last 2 weeks. It went from 2.6 to 3.7 Million due to additions of qualifiers for evidence codes on human and mouse proteins.
- Interested in seeing Wikidata training sessions at Wikimania? Add yourself to interested attendees for the sessions.
- PetScan now has item creator functionality.
- The catalog of the National Library of Israel has been added to Mix'n'match
- Great examples on French and Russian Wikipedia for infobox based on Wikidata: fr:Andrew Tanenbaum, ru:Таненбаум, Эндрю and references based on Wikidata: fr:Trappeur, ru:Доказательство с нулевым разглашением
Did you know?
Development
- 4 years ago we started coding on Wikidata. What a ride it has been and continues to be. <3 to everyone who is a part of it.
- We are going to make a change to the RDF format for geocoordinates.
- Here is a preview of geospatial search on the query service.
- The query service now has bubble charts as a visualization option (example)
- Busy at the Wikimedia hackathon.
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #204

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussion
- Splitting a property to limit formatter URLs to one per property: Authority_control#DE-ISIL
Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: digikult.se
- Upcoming: IRC office hour
- Upcoming: FOSSCOMM
- A week of looking at women
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Document with lots of useful links around Wikidata for workshops etc
- Nice list of species with sounds linked on Wikidata
Did you know?
Development
- Lucie successfully defended her thesis about the ArticlePlaceholder. Congrats!
- Worked more on the first version of the user interface for structured data for multimedia files
- Worked on simplifying input of queries for people who do not know SPARQL
- Improved localizability of the sitelink and reference counters
- Allow input and output of localized dates with precision smaller than years (phab:T95532 and phab:T127820)
- More string properties have been converted to external id ones, so that we have over 850 external id properties now
- Experimenting with Citoid support for Wikidata to make it easier to add complete references in the way Visual Editor does it
- Improved performance of sticky property labels (phab:T103485)
- Released DataValues JavaScript 0.8.1
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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No editing 2 times this week

ستختبر مؤسسة ويكيميديا أحدث مراكز معلوماتها في مدينة دالاس. وذلك للتأكد من أن أرابيكا ومشاريع ويكيميديا الأخرى ستظل متصلة بالإنترنت حتى بعد وقوع كارثة. للتأكد من أن كل شيء على ما يرام، تحتاج إدارة ويكيميديا التقنية لإجراء اختبار مدروس. وهذا الاختبار سيظهر إذا ما كان يمكنهم التبديل بين مراكز البيانات. ويتطلب ذلك من العديد من الفرق الاستعداد للاختبار وأن يكونوا جاهزين لإصلاح أي مشكلات غير متوقعة.

سوف تحول كل حركات الاتصال إلى مركز البيانات الجديد يوم الثلاثاء 19 أبريل/نيسان.
أما في يوم الخميس 21 أبريل/نيسان، ستحول حركة الاتصالات مرة أخرى إلى مركز البيانات الرئيسي.

وللأسف، وبسبب بعض القيود على ميدياويكي، سيتعين وقف كافة أعمال التحرير خلال هذين الانتقالين. ونحن نعتذر عن هذا الانقطاع، وسنعمل على تقليل حدوثه في المستقبل.

سيمكنكم القراءة، ولكن لا يمكنكم التعديل، على كل مواقع الويكي لفترة قصيرة من الزمن.

لن يمكنكم التعديل لفترة تتراوح بين 15 و30 دقيقة يومي الثلاثاء 19 أبريل/نيسان والخميس 21 أبريل/نيسان، بدءا من الساعة 14:00 بالتوقيت العالمي (15:00 بالتوقيت البريطاني الصيفي، 16:00 بتوقيت وسط أوربا الصيفي، 10:00 بتوقيت شرق الولايات المتحدة، 07:00 بتوقيت المحيط الهادي النهاري).
إذا حاولتم تعديل أو حفظ أي شيء في تلك الأوقات، فسوف ترون رسالة خطأ. نأمل أن لا تضيع أية تعديلات خلال تلك الدقائق، ولكن لا يسعنا أن نضمن ذلك. إذا رأيتم رسالة الخطأ، يرجى الانتظار حتى يعود كل شيء إلى سابق عهده. وبالتالي ستقدرون على حفظ التعديلات. ولكن، من المستحسن أن تنسخوا تعديلاتكم قبل إرسالها، على سبيل الاحتياط.

الآثار الأخرى:

الأعمال في الخلفية ستكون بطيئة وبعضها قد يتوقف. قد لا تحدث الروابط الشبكية الحمراء بالسرعة المعتادة. لو أنشأتم مقالة مربوطة بالفعل بمكان آخر، سيظل الرابط الشبكي أحمر اللون لفترة أطول من المعتاد. كما سنضطر لوقف بعض النصوص البرمجية طويلة الأجل.
كما سيكون هناك فترة وقف للتكويد خلال الأسبوع الذي يبدأ بتاريخ 18 أبريل/نيسان. لن تستخدم أية أكواد غير ضرورية في تلك المدة.

كان الموعد الأصلي لهذا الاختبار هو 22 مارس/آذار. أما التواريخ الجديدة فهي كلا من 19 و21 أبريل/نيسان. يمكنكم الاطلاع على الجدول الزمني المحدد على wikitech.wikimedia.org وسينشروا أية تعديلات على هذا الجدول الزمني. سيكون هناك المزيد من الإشعارات حول هذا الموضوع. يرجى مشاركة هذه المعلومات مع مجتمعكم. /User:Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 20:55، 17 أبريل 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #205

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussion
- Closed request for comments: Reforming the property creation process, Improve bot policy for data import and data modification
Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: office hour on IRC (log)
- Past: ISB2016 (slides)
- Past: WWW2016 - Freebase to Wikidata migration (slides)
- Past: CUNY Wikidata intro (slides)
- National Library of Wales: Our Wikidata Visiting Scholar
- New TSRI Project Helps Researchers Build a Biomedical Knowledgebase
- Yle <3 Wikidata - using Wikidata for concept tagging
Other noteworthy stuff
- ArticlePlaceholder is going live on the first small Wikipedias on May 11th and could use your help
- Wikimedia Commons will get the arbitrary access feature on April 26th
- The Europeana Art History Challenge has started
- Magnus made a handy user-script for duplicating items, for when a new item has similar property values to an existing one. See for instance, this set of edits for a second version of an artwork.
- Listeria now has a status page
- PetScan has now the option "Has no statements" to find items without statements for a category at Wikipedia (sample: en:Category:United States geography stubs) or an entire language version (sample: "sowiki").
Did you know?
Development
- Query results for the query service are now cached by default for 60 seconds (phabricator:T126730)
- Finishing touches on easier input of geocoordinates and dates (sneak peek)
- Finishing touches on easier manipulation of SPARQL queries (sneak peel - should go live later today)
- Significantly reduced the write access to the database to make sure we're not frying the poor servers unnecessarily
- Getting ArticlePlaceholder ready for first deployment
- More work on first prototype for structured data support for Wikimedia Commons
- Cleaned up icons for selecting rank and value type
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikipedia to the Moon

Hello! Sorry that this is in English only, but we are using village pump messaging in order to reach as many language communities as possible. Wrong page? Please fix it here.

This is an invitation to all Wikipedians: Wikimedia Deutschland has been given data space to include Wikipedia content in an upcoming mission to the Moon. (No joke!) We have launched a community discussion about how to do that, because we feel that this is for the global community of editors. Please, join the discussion on Meta-Wiki (and translate this invitation to your language community)! Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 15:35، 21 أبريل 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #206

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
Other noteworthy stuff
- SQUID: a new class and property browser for Wikidata (background info)
- Wikidata Graph Builder now can visualize graphs with different node sizes. See for instance, types of artists with number of people, occupied with each subclass item
- List of items that have English, German, and French sitselinks, but no statements
- List of articles on English Wikipedia with a video where the corresponding item has no video
- Listeria bot (the one generating lists on Wikipedia based on Wikidata data) will now begin auto-replacing simple WDQ queries with SPARQL ones
- Magnus is looking for a designer to help with a logo for PetScan
- Arbitrary access for Wikimedia Commons is coming as planned on the 26th
- Wikidata surpassed English Wikipedia in items/articles using files from Wikimedia Commons
Did you know?
Development
- There will be some maintenance on the query service in a few hours
- Redesigned the rank selector as well as snak type selector icons (phab:T129033#2217402, gerrit:283968)
- The snak type selector icon also has a tooltip now (gerrit:283945)
- The term table header row as well as language column will now be marked as instead of (gerrit:283395)
- Fixed an issue with newline characters in quantity values (phab:T110728)
- Fixed the month-precision time parser ignoring the minus in "January -150" (phab:T132441)
- Continued working on diffing and patching support for new entity types (phab:T132442)
- Continued working on support for creating entities of new types as part of the work for Wikimedia Commons support (phab:T132964)
- Rolled out a little query explanation field to query.wikidata.org to help you better understand a query if you don't understand SPARQL well
- Fixed a bug where the map wouldn't show in the visualization of a query result (phabricator:T132669)
- Fixed issues with the duplicate references gadget (phabricator:T131920)
- Added basic support for more languages to the query service (phabricator:T132756)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Additional machine translation support enabled today for Content Translation

Hello, machine translation support for Content Translation (beta feature) has now been extended for users of Arabic Wikipedia and in addition to Apertium, Yandex has also been enabled. It can be used when translating Wikipedia articles into Arabic with Content Translation. To start using this service, please choose ‘’Yandex.Translate’’ from the ‘’Automatic Translation’’ dropdown menu that you see on the sidebar after you start translating an article. Please note, machine translation is available from all the languages that are supported by Yandex.Translate, but Content Translation can still be used in the usual manner for translating from all languages, with or without machine translation support.

Wikimedia Foundation’s Legal team and Yandex had collaborated earlier to work out an agreement that allows the use of Yandex.Translate without compromising Wikipedia’s policy of attribution of rights, privacy of our users and brand representation. Since November 2015, Yandex machine translation has been used for articles translated for Wikipedias in many languages. Details about Yandex translation services, including a summary of the contract are available on this page. More information about the machine translation services in Content Translation is available on this page. We request you to kindly take a look at these pages.

We have tested the service for use on the Arabic Wikipedia, but there could be unknown problems that we are not aware of yet. Please do let us know on our Project Talk page or phabricator if you face any problems using Content Translation. This message is only in English and we will be very grateful if it could be translated into Arabic for other users of this Wikipedia. Thank you. On behalf of WMF Language team: --KartikMistry (نقاش) 10:57، 27 أبريل 2016 (ت ع م)

@KartikMistry:K thank you for spreading the news, I think we'll have to do some tests before we urge users to use it, because we really are suffering from the automatic translation, that some users use google translate and leave the text as is. Hopefully with this new tool, things will be better. --مستخدم:Mervat Salman/توقيع 19:18، 1 مايو 2016 (ت ع م)

The importance of translating topics for Arab diasporas

The Metro Times ran an article about problems at a charter school (a type of independent public school) in Detroit, Michigan, a city with a large Arab immigrant population. The article talks about the language difficulties faced by a Yemeni girl.

""Miss?" she turned to her teacher Asil Yassine whose classroom she was working in. "What's a GED?"

Yassine, a second-year teacher at Universal, says she was surprised by the question and explained that a GED was a high school equivalency diploma, a way for people who didn't finish high school to still get credit. "You don't need to think about that, though," she laughed.

Sitting on a plastic-covered couch in her family’s living room, Etab is shaking as she recalls what happened next; how she started crying as she told her teacher about the statement she had written out and signed hours earlier.

"I am Etab Ahmed want to finish the high school through GED. And do not want to continue at Universal Academy - Etab Ahmed 11/10/15""

She was tricked into signing a statement which said that she was to leave the school.

We want to make sure Arab immigrants and expatriates are well-educated about their new countries of settlement, so it's important to translate articles about institutions and concepts important to Arab immigrants, no matter their religion or nationality. WhisperToMe (نقاش) 22:45، 28 أبريل 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #207

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- Wikidata, a stable source for disambiguation items?
Events/Blogs/Press
- Find, Prioritize, and Recommend: An article recommendation system to fill knowledge gaps across Wikipedia
- Upcoming: CSVconf
- Upcoming: Open Tech Summit
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Commons now has arbitrary access
- Work on ORES to make vandalism fighting easier is progressing well. "Damaging" and "goodfaith" models for Wikidata are now online.
- Wikimind
- New coverage maps have been created (see thumbnails)
- We have new images you can use to indicate your website/app/service is using data from Wikidata. (2 of the files have a problem still. We're working on a fix and will reupload.)
  Show the rest of the world you're using data from Wikidata!
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Loop ID, sound power, 3DMet ID, locality or place, Index Hepaticarum ID, clearance, ASF KID Cave Tag Number, power consumed, net tonnage, connects with, Czech neighbourhood ID code, longest span, aerodrome reference point, Mercalli intensity scale
- Category reports on without claims by site now link to PetScan's fast "has no statements"-option. A report for your preferred Wikipedia can be added.
- Query examples: software with most versions (source), oldest software (source), map of U1 stations in Berlin (source)
Development
- Created the first MediaInfo entity through the API (screenshot, a bit more background)
- Substantially reduced server load for item and property displaying (phab:T132662)
- There are currently some issues with the order of latitude/longitude inn coordinates in the query service map visualization. It will be fixed tonight.
- Removed unsupported sort and dir parameters from the wikibase.api.RepoApi JavaScript module. This may break user JavaScript calling getEntitiesByPage (phab:T119856).
- Worked on new flyers for institutions that want to cooperate with Wikidata and developers wanting to use our data (will be published on Commons once they're done)
- Moved forward with internationalization of the query service interface (not on translatewiki.net yet but being worked on)
- Worked on making it possible to extend SPARQL queries in simplified natural language version. It will also no longer add query prefixes when editing the query. Those are not live yet.
- Fixed a bug where admins got a blank page when trying to view deleted revisions (phabricator:T132645)
- Investigating issues with bad suggestions for properties when adding new statements (phabricator:T132839)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #208

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: OpenTechSummit
  slides for SPARQL intro at OpenTechSummit
- Past: CSVConf
- Past: Subscribe7 (slides)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Our Main Page now has a section for popular items to show you what is trending on Wikidata based on several people editing an item over the last few days
- More constraint templates now generate SPARQL links
- Europeana Art History Challenge is still going on until the end of the month
- Freebase has been shut down
- Wikiversity now has access to the data on Wikidata as well
- The 24,000,000th item was created: Q24000000
- The ArticlePlaceholder will go live on the first Wikipedias on Wednesday (Esperanto, Haitian Creole, Neapolitan Wikipedia)
- Quora: Why isn't Wikimedia Commons using structured data via Wikidata?
- Newest trend on Twitter: annotating books with Wikidata statements ;-)
Did you know?
- Newest properties: flower color, Megogo ID, via, Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature ID, Belgian Football ID, by-product of, by-product, cardinality of this set, Yandex.Music album ID, Sherdog ID, appears in the heritage monument list, HowLongToBeat identifier, ESR station code, P-number, mouthpiece, MathWorld identifier, PGA Tour ID, LPGA Tour ID, Australasian Pollen and Spore Atlas Code, wavelength, molar volume, vibration, goratings ID, International Sailing Federation ID, Wikidata time precision, fleet or registration number, FIVB beach volleyball player ID, Beach Volleyball Database ID, BVMC person ID
- Query examples: most frequent occupations without a label in a given language, map of places of birth of economists (source), map of all the paintings for which we know a location with the count per location (source), scientists who have worked together but whose Erdős numbers don’t reflect that (source), members of the French National Assembly born out of France (source), mathematical proofs (source), items that depict most things (source)
Development
- Finished remaining blockers for deploying the ArticlePlaceholder on the first Wikipedias
- More work on initial Commons prototype
- Further work on textual representation of SPARQL queries to allow you to read/edit more of an existing query without having to touch SPARQL
- Show label instead of URI for globes in coordinate diffs - thanks Ricordisamoa! (phabricator:T110193)
- Improve recent changes entries formatting on Wikipedia and co (phabricator:T52893)
- No longer showing a restore link for inaccessible revdel'ed entity revisions - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T55496)
- Investigated and worked around issues with the suggestions for new statements - needs more work (phabricator:T132839)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #209

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- A few proposals for missing properties for Wikivoyage listings have been made
Events/Blogs/Press
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- We made a huge step for small Wikipedias and small languages online by rolling out the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias
- Geospatial search is now up and running on the query service. You can now search for items within a geographic area.
- The Wikidata Graph Builder has a refreshed interface with even more controls
- Sitelinks for the new Jumiekan Patwa Wikipidia (in Jamaican Patois) are being added
- Mapbox's Geocoder now uses Wikidata
- PetScan now has query examples
- d:Wikidata:Wikidata for authority control collects examples of usage of Wikidata for authority control
Did you know?
Development
- Deployed the ArticlePlaceholder on the first 4 Wikipedias and worked on issues that were found
- Incident report of issues with the query service
- Worked on language fallback in the main header (screenshot, phabricator:T98014)
- More work on Commons prototype
- Worked on timeline as another visualization for the query service (phabricator:T135222)
- Fixed missing message for translation for Wikibase repo - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T124766)
- We are now generating translatable automatic comments for undo and restore operations - thanks Matěj! (phabricator:T41134)
- Fixed issue with autocompletion on the query service (phabricator:T133317)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #210

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- Discussions about missing properties for Wikivoyage listings are progressing as enhancements are suggested
Events/Blogs/Press
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- In about 2 weeks we will get the ArticlePlaceholder to more Wikipedias. Let us know if yours wants to be in.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: produced by, Wi-Fi, Google+, wheelchair accessibility, RAN ID, incidence, Benezit ID, place of marriage, age of onset, NSC number, gait
- Query examples: given names with most variations (source with links to graphs), papers about Wikidata (source), memes (source), cathedrals in Paris (source), highest mountains in the universe (source), Law & Order episodes (source), things/people with most children (source)
Development
- Performance improvements in query service map display.
- Fixed a focus issue in the suggester (phabricator:T135008)
- Further groundwork on Commons support
- Fixed first issues that popped up after ArticlePlaceholder deployment based on feedback
- Investigated and prepared fix for issue where files on Commons couldn't be deleted (phabricator:T135485)
- Finished work on language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T98014)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Wikidata weekly summary #211

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- New request for comments: Standards for property proposal discussions, Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements
- Import of Wiki Loves Monuments database
Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: WikiCite (including links to documentation etherpads)
  - interview with Open Science Radio
- Past: Gulaschprogrammiernacht (video)
- Ben Whishaw, Broadway, La Rada et WWikidata
- Meet TED’s Wikipedians-in-Residence
- Orte, die mit 'ow' oder 'itz' enden
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Charlie published her thesis about editing Wikidata directly from Wikipedia and co
- Learning pattern about using data of Wikipedia and Wikidata in Google spreadsheet
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Library of the National Congress of Argentina ID, Minitel, SureChEMBL ID, type of unit for this property, property usage tracking category, PubChem BioAssay ID (AID), time in space, tourist office, miRBase mature miRNA ID, miRBase pre-miRNA ID, record or record progression, has role, Molenecho's ID, Hollandsche Molen ID, Band number, OpenCritic ID, Nederlandse Molendatabase ID, Catalogus Professorum Academiae Rheno-Traiectinae ID, Leidse Hoogleraren ID, cites, X-SAMPA Code, KLOV ID, WWE.com superstar ID, EU Surface Water Body Code, VAT-rate, disease burden, electrical plug type, emergency phone number, payment types accepted, iTunes artist ID
- Query examples: Fictional universes with most fictional planets (source), main subject of West Wing episodes (source), places with free wifi (source), citation network of paper about Zika (source), taxons and what they are named after (source), billionaires (source), animals that were executed (source), chemical elements and their isotopes by number of neutrons (min/max) (source), popes with children (source), birthplaces of astronauts (source)
Development
- Worked on fix for issue with language fallback in main part of header (phabricator:T135714)
- More work on support for Commons - main focus right now is on making it possible to actually store a new entity without jumping through hoops
- Fixing a bug in Internet Explorer with prevents editing (phabricator:T136543)
- Worked on more blockers for next deployment of the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T135624)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 18:24، 30 مايو 2016 (ت ع م)

JavaScript

Hi. I can see that this project has old JavaScript that needs to be updated. I would happily make the required updates myself, but I would have to – at least temporarily – become an admin here to do that (because the relevant pages are in the MediaWiki namespace). I have already made these updates on a number of other projects, so it would be very easy for me to do this. If no one does anything, some JavaScript-related tools will break later this year. If you want me to make these updates, you can grant me admin rights and I will make the updates as soon as I can. Nirmos (نقاش) 02:17، 2 يونيو 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #212

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: OpenData.ch
- Upcoming: HackHPI
- Upcoming: ELAG
- Documentation of the outcomes of WikiCite
- Wikidata showing chemical properties with references
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- SQID now also shows references for statements and received a whole bunch of other nice features
- wikidata-cli now has a wdsparql command to work with SPARQL from the command line
- It seems we already have almost 0.4% of the current population of Finland on Wikidata.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: exact match, reserve number (Canada), Shakeosphere person ID, mains voltage, HKMDb film ID, relegated, promoted, NIOSHTIC-2 ID
- Query examples: body of water with the most watercourses ending in it (source), French communes with names ending in ac (source), birthplaces of Europeana280 artists (source), popular eye colors (source)
Development
- Fixed the bug where the language selector in Special:NewItem doesn't recognize certain languages (phabricator:T115792)
- Fixed issues that prevented editing in Internet Explorer (phabricator:T136543)
- Added new visualization to the query service to visualize graphs like family trees. It is now deployed yet but will come soon.
- Worked on new visualization for the query service to visualize results with data on different dimensions
- Improved build and deploy process for the query service. The site should load faster now.
- Improved the formatting of dates and more in the query service.
- More fixes to get ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of wikis
- Worked on a fix for the issue where sometimes an old label is shown in the main header of an item (phabricator:T135714)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

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Content Translation - Community consultation

Content Translation is an article creation tool that has been in use since January 2015. Content translation helps users translate existing articles from one Wikipedia into languages on other Wikipedias where the article does not exist. It is used by editors to write many new articles, increasing participation by new users and also renewing active editing in many Wikipedias. Translated from existing articles, 88000 new articles with considerably rich content have been written using this tool. Content Translation is an opt-in beta feature. We are now preparing to take Content Translation to a bigger group of users by taking the tool out of beta feature on a few Wikipedias. We prepared a preliminary list with the following wikis: Arabic, Catalan, Chinese, Hebrew, Indonesian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmal), Persian, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Ukrainian. This set of wikis were selected to create variations in size, language groups, and usage patterns of Content Translation.

Based on an earlier consultation with the editors of the Catalan Wikipedia, the earliest adopter of this tool, the Content Translation team have prepared a preliminary set of requirements that we consider should be fulfilled before the tool is ready for use outside of beta. To focus on the features and concerns that are most important for users of Content Translation, we would like to get more feedback. We are hosting a consultation from June 8, 2016 to June 22, 2016 on this village pump.

As we work on the tool it is being improved every day, but we are particularly looking to better understand the issues in Content Translation that make the tool unusable or add extra workload for our editors. Please let us know on this topic thread. During the conversations, we may point you to Phabricator tickets for ongoing work, so that you can track the status of work. For new issues we will create new Phabricator tickets to help the development team keep the details documented. After June 22, 2016 we will go through all the feedback and follow up with a summary, and an updated plan for Content Translation’s move out of beta.

This message could only be written in English. We will be grateful if the message can be translated to Arabic for other users of the Wikipedia. Thank you for your support for Content Translation. We look forward to hearing from you! On behalf of the WMF Language team: —Runab WMF (نقاش) 16:54، 8 يونيو 2016 (ت ع م)

Hello, the consultation on this thread is now closed. Thank you for your participation. However, please feel free to leave any further feedback at the project talk page. We are currently going through the comments and discussion, and will post the summary on July 4, 2016. Please watch this page for updates. On behalf of the WMF Language team: —Runab WMF (نقاش) 09:23، 23 يونيو 2016 (ت ع م)

The summary is now available on this page. Thank you.--Runab WMF (نقاش) 04:06، 5 يوليو 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikipedia to the Moon: voting has begun

Hello, after six weeks of community discussion about Wikipedia to the Moon, there are now 10 different proposals for content for the mission. Starting today, you can vote for them on Meta-Wiki, and decide what we will work on: a Wikipedia canon, different lists, the Moon in 300 languages, an astronomy editathon, featured articles, articles about technology, endangered things, or DNA-related topics. You can even vote against community involvement. Voting is open until 24 June. Sorry that this message is again in English only, but we are using village pumps to reach as many communities as possible, so that everyone knows they can vote. Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 15:31، 10 يونيو 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #213

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- New request for comments: Semi-automatic Addition of References to Wikidata Statements - feedback on the Primary Sources Tool
- Others: Discussion about currency conversion rates, P2893_-_wrong_datatype
Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimania - find all the Wikidata things happening here
- Upcoming: Repo-Fringe 2016
- Past: HackHPI
- Past: ELAG (slides)
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Passionate about Wikidata and a great communicator? We are looking to hire a community communications person.
- Gujarati, Latvian and Nynorsk Wikipedia now have the ArticlePlaceholder as well.
- Catalan and Polish Wikipedia will show Wikidata descriptions on the mobile website starting soon. More Wikipedias will follow. (phabricator:T135429)
- Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: RateBeer brewery ID, Beer Advocate brewery ID, Molendatabase verdwenen molens ID, fax number, minimum age, Swedish county letter, Eldoblaje Movie ID, publication interval, maximum sustained winds, day of week, Skype, UMLS CUI, FamilySearch ID
- Query examples: Eiffel Tower in art (source), popular surnames among humans (source), popular surnames among fictional characters (source), average lifespan by occupation (source), German breweries (source), years with 3 popes (source), people who died by burning - on a timeline (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Lighthouses, Roller Coasters
Development
- Worked on creating mediainfo entities on demand when a file is viewed that doesn't have an associated mediainfo entity yet. This is needed for structured data support for Commons.
- Worked on making it possible to embed query results in other websites. You can get a preview at https://jonaskress.github.io
- Added timeline as a possible visualization for the query service.
- Investigated issues with downloading query result sets in Safari.
- Got ArticlePlaceholder ready for the second round of Wikipedias.
- Fixed bug where map wasn't enabled as a possible visualization for queries with cooridnates.
You can soon specify the color of the bubbles in a bubble chart visualization. (phabricator:T137061)
- Fixed a bug with terms sometimes not showing up, language fallback not working correctly in Lua modules and connection to master database
- Fixed a bug with URL encoding in the query service.
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 14:25، 13 يونيو 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #214

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Upcoming: Wikimania
- Upcoming: WikiConvention francophone
- Past: GLAM Wiki Boot Camp
- Past: Silicon Mountain Conf
- Past: OpenData.ch
- Past: Semantic Web + Wikidata
- Wikidata beim Hackathon HackHPI in Potsdam
- Data Ex Machina
- Op-ed in the Wikipedia Signpost regarding Wikidata licensing
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- ORES is not available as a beta feature to make it easier to find bad edits
- New user script to show the main image of an item is ready for testing
- Into football/soccer? WikiProject Association football/Euro 2016 could use your help.
- Want to see Wikidata changes in the history of a Wikipedia article? There is a user script that needs your feedback.
- We are looking for people who work on list articles.
- You can test a gadget that lets you easily run a query for more items with the same statement.
- Language fallback is now happening on Wikipedia and co
- Maps are now enabled on Wikidata
- First beta release of StrepHit
Did you know?
- Newest properties: Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID, focal height, month of the year, label in sign language, PO Box, COAM ID, syntax clarification, ECARTICO person ID, MSBI person ID, date depicted, distinctive jersey, time gap, icon, SecondHandSongs artist ID, SecondHandSongs song ID, timezone offset
- Query examples: colors of chemical compounds (source), map of braodway venues (source), sculptures by Max Bill (source), works of art where the name might be a rhyme (source), works of art where the title is an alliteration (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Professional Wrestling
- ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 100 can avoid timeouts on Wikidata Query Service (source)
Development
- Worked on making it easier to add new query examples right from the query service by just clicking a button. There are some technical issues with it still though. Will take a while to sort through.
- More work on creating new Media-Info entities (the equivalent of item for media file data) on the fly (phabricator:T134259)
- Fixed a but with suggestions not showing up (phabricator:T138059)
- Improved display of query examples (phabricator:T137589) and cleaned them up
- Improved database access (phabricator:T137539)
- Fixed a but with the rank selector (phabricator:T109583)
- Started concept work for automated list generation
- Discussed the proposal for Wiktionary with a linguist to get more detailed feedback on it. Very positive.
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 13:29، 20 يونيو 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #215

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Discussions
- New request for comments: Verifiability and living persons, RfP voting eligibility
Events/Blogs/Press
- Past: Wikimania! The Wikidata-related program parts including slides and notes can be found on the Wikidata Wikimania page.
- TIB and HsH project approved: The replication of Open-Access images
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- EasyQuery is now a gadget that you can enable in your preferences. It gives you an icon next to each statement value. That gives you a list of other items with the same statement.
- Stats have been updated and show a significant jump in references.
- SQID now shows references (example)
- INSPIRE HEP has been added to Mix'n'match
- PAWS is now available. It lets you easily run a Jupyter notebook and much more.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: language used, connector, Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers identifier, INSPIRE-HEP author ID, lighthouse range, memory capacity, water as percent of area, InterPro ID, domain of saint or deity
- Query examples: sandwich ingredients (source), inventors killed by their own invention (source), objects with most mass (source), music genres (source), number of jurisdictions by driving side (source)
Development
- The majority of the Wikidata developers team atteded Wikimania
- You can now embed query results from query.wikidata.org in other websites (example)
- Linking MediaInfo entities to media files in the "MediaInfo for Commons" prototype (phabricator:T134473)
- Tracking more statistics for the ArticlePlaceholder (phabricator:T138500)
- Adding support for quantity values with unknown uncertainty (phabricator:T115269)
- Worked on fix for bug where new entities can be created with wrong language (phabricator:T138725)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:48، 27 يونيو 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikipedia to the Moon: invitation to edit

Three weeks ago, you were invited to vote on how to take Wikipedia articles to the Moon. Community voting is over and the winning idea is to send all ‘’featured articles and lists’’ to the Moon. This decision means that, starting today, Wikipedians from all language communities are warmly invited to intensively work on their best articles and lists, and submit them to Wikipedia to the Moon. The central site to coordinate between communities will be Meta-Wiki. You will find an overview and more information there. Hopefully, we will be able to represent as many languages as possible, to show Wikipedia’s diversity. Please feel kindly invited to edit on behalf of your community and tell us about your work on featured content!

Best, Moon team at Wikimedia Deutschland 14:10، 1 يوليو 2016 (ت ع م)

Editing News #2—2016

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Did you know?

It's quick and easy to insert a references list.

Place the cursor where you want to display the references list (usually at the bottom of the page). Open the "إدراج" menu and click the "قائمة مراجع" icon (three books).

If you are using several groups of references, which is relatively rare, you will have the opportunity to specify the group. If you do that, then only the references that belong to the specified group will be displayed in this list of references. Finally, click "إدراج" in the dialog to insert the قائمة مراجع. This list will change as you add more footnotes to the page.

You can read and help translate the user guide, which has more information about how to use the visual editor.

Since the last newsletter, the VisualEditor Team has fixed many bugs. Their workboard is available in Phabricator. Their current priorities are improving support for Arabic and Indic scripts, and adapting the visual editor to the needs of the Wikivoyages and Wikisources.

Recent changes

The visual editor is now available to all users at most Wikivoyages. It was also enabled for all contributors at the French Wikinews.

The single edit tab feature combines the "عدِّل" and "عدل المصدر" tabs into a single "عدِّل" tab. It has been deployed to several Wikipedias, including Hungarian, Polish, English and Japanese Wikipedias, as well as to all Wikivoyages. At these wikis, you can change your settings for this feature in the "التحرير" tab of Special:Preferences. The team is now reviewing the feedback and considering ways to improve the design before rolling it out to more people.

Future changes

The "حفظ الصفحة" button will say "نشر الصفحة". This will affect both the visual and wikitext editing systems. More information is available on Meta.

The visual editor will be offered to all editors at the remaining "Phase 6" Wikipedias during the next few months. The developers want to know whether typing in your language feels natural in the visual editor. Please post your comments and the language(s) that you tested at the feedback thread on mediawiki.org. This will affect several languages, including: Arabic, Hindi, Thai, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Urdu, Persian, Bengali, Assamese, Aramaic and others.

The team is working with the volunteer developers who power Wikisource to provide the visual editor there, for opt-in testing right now and eventually for all users. (T138966)

The team is working on a modern wikitext editor. It will look like the visual editor, and be able to use the citoid service and other modern tools. This new editing system may become available as a Beta Feature on desktop devices around September 2016. You can read about this project in a general status update on the Wikimedia mailing list.

Let's work together

Do you teach new editors how to use the visual editor? Did you help set up the Citoid automatic reference feature for your wiki? Have you written or imported TemplateData for your most important citation templates? Would you be willing to help new editors and small communities with the visual editor? Please sign up for the new VisualEditor Community Taskforce.
Learn how to improve the "automagical" citoid referencing system in the visual editor, by creating Zotero translators for popular sources in your language! Watch the Tech Talk by Sebastian Karcher for more information.

If you aren't reading this in your preferred language, then please help us with translations! Subscribe to the Translators mailing list or contact us directly, so that we can notify you when the next issue is ready. شكرًا لك!

m:User:Elitre (WMF), 17:20، 3 يوليو 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #216

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Europeana280 Art History Challenge has finished
- The life and times of Mr Herbert Ellerby: Linking Llandudno, Lancashire, and Moggill, Australia
- Wikidata auf der GPN
- Past: PSESHSF (You can sign up to be notified about more Wikidata workshops in France)
- Past: Swiss Open Cultural Data Hackathon
- Upcoming: office hour on IRC
- Upcoming: State of the Map US in Seattle - http://stateofthemap.us/
- Upcoming: Wikimedia UK AGM with Wikidata training
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- There is now a 100wikidatadays challenge based on the 100wikidays challenge for Wikipedia. The goal: convert 100 templates to make use of Wikidata over the course of 100 days.
- Tobias started writing a tutorial on how to write infoboxes that make use of Wikidata's data and could use your help expanding it.
- Thiemo wrote a user script to pre-fill "date retrieved" in a reference with the current date. Please test and let us know what you think ont he linked page. If you like it it can become a gadget.
Did you know?
- Newest properties: British Book Trade Index ID, Plarr ID, warheroes.ru ID, Dailymotion channel ID, Munk's Roll ID, Catalogus Professorum Rostochensium ID, CageMatch tag team ID, Pleiades place type identifier, parliamentary term
- Query examples: Ancestors of Guðni Jóhannesson (note the last names), movies with Bud Spencer (source), largest cities per country (source), longest river of each continent (source), rivers in Antarctica (source), continents (source), and some other continents (source), places with continent Antarctica more than 3000 km north of south pole (source), files used as “image” in more than 10 items (source), monuments historiques in Loire-Atlantique (source), music composers by birth place (source), places of whorship (source), teachers with most students (source), buildings in more than one country (source), sandwiches (source), composers and their most-used tonality (source), former capitals (source), list of suicide attacks (source), birthplaces of people named Antoine (source), places that are below 10 meters above sea level (source)
- Newest WikiProjects: Etymology, Knowledge Organization Systems
- Newest external tools: Navel Gazer (users statement addition counts)
Development
- More groundwork for Commons. We can now save a statement in the new MediaInfo entity type \o/ (Some minor issues still with the demo system but should be solved next week.)
- Fixed a display issue with description tooltips in recent changes. Thanks Matěj Suchánek! (phabricator:T89663)
- Refactored quite some of the sitelinks-related JavaScript code (phabricator:T127056 and gerrit:294687. This may break some existing gadgets and user scripts temporarily.
- Updated the graphic representing the data model in Wikidata: long, medium, short
- Fixed problem with editing statements on Wikidata, after last week's deployment (phabricator:T138974)
- Started interviews to find user needs and workflows for automated list generation (phabricator:T139284)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 16:51، 4 يوليو 2016 (ت ع م)

Compact Links coming soon to this wiki

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Screenshot of Compact Language Links interlanguage list

Hello, I wanted to give a heads up about an upcoming feature for this wiki which you may seen already in the Tech News. Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). This will be enabled as a feature in the coming week for all users, which can be turned on or off using a preference setting. We look forward to your feedback and please do let us know if you have any questions. Details about Compact Language Links can be read in the project documentation.

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. The main announcement can also be translated on this page. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)--11:46، 8 يوليو 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #217

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Connecting OpenStreetMap and Wikidata, blog post by Mapbox
- Past: office hour on IRC (log)
- Now: ISMB 2016 Editathon
- Upcoming: Viquimarató de Wikidata sobre Ramon Llull
- Upcoming: OpenSym
- Monitoring the Gender Gap with Wikidata Human Gender Indicators
- An Empirical Evaluation of Property Recommender Systems for Wikidata and Collaborative Knowledge Bases
- Mapping street names to Wikidata entities they refer to and enriching OpenStreetMap with linked data
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- The removal of Persondata from the English Wikipedia is completed. There are still much information to migrate to Wikidata at KasparBot's tool.
- Tour de France data is coming from Wikidata in at least 3 Wikipedias
- Freebase API will be shut down on August 31
- TXT Werk is now using Wikidata to identify entities (previously Freebase)
- Magnus' reference drag and drop script is now a gadget
- Got an idea for a cool project around Wikidata but need some funding? A project grant might be an option.
- There are several full PhD/postdoc positions available at TU Dresden with Markus including work on Wikidata
- Magnus' Wiki Loves Monuments tool now also reads cultural identifiers from Wikidata and was switched to use SPARQL
Did you know?
- Newest properties: archive date, permanent duplicated item, throughput, NAIF ID, point of penalty, Transferred Account Data Interchange Group Code, Estonian Research Portal person ID, bateau d'intérêt patrimonial, Cultural heritage database in Austria ObjektID, Nomisma ID, WikiTree ID, Estonian cultural monument ID, BacDive ID
- Query examples: timeline of space probes (source), countries with most UNESCO World Heritage Sites (source), places in America named after places in England (source), emergency number by country size (source)
Development
- Working on an infographic to represent the flow of data in Wikidata
- Work on multi-content revisions in order to be able to store an entity (item, property, mediainfo) and wiki text in the same page (This is needed for Commons) (phabricator:T107595)
- Did more interviews with editors as preparation for the work on automated list generation for Wikipedia and co based on Wikidata data
- Fixed a bug with data parsing in Korean and a few other languages (phabricator:T139509)
- Added "non" as a language code for monolingual text values (phabricator:T137115)
- Removed display of calendar model for dates with precision of 10 years or larger (phabricator:T133973)
- Fixed issues in some of the forms on special pages on mobile (phabricator:T138413)
- Disabled PDF export in item and property pages (phabricator:T136814)
- Worked on making it possible to have quantities with no bounds set (phabricator:T115270)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 15:33، 11 يوليو 2016 (ت ع م)

Compact Language Links enabled in this wiki today

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Compact Language Links has been available as a beta-feature on all Wikimedia wikis since 2014. With compact language links enabled, users are shown a much shorter list of languages on the interlanguage link section of an article (see image). Based on several factors, this shorter list of languages is expected to be more relevant for them and valuable for finding similar content in a language known to them. More information about compact language links can be found in the documentation.

From today onwards, compact language links has been enabled as the default listing of interlanguage links on this wiki. However, using the button at the bottom, you will be able to see a longer list of all the languages the article has been written in. The setting for this compact list can be changed by using the checkbox under User Preferences -> Appearance -> Languages

The compact language links feature has been tested extensively by the Wikimedia Language team, which developed it. However, in case there are any problems or other feedback please let us know on the project talk page. It is to be noted that on some wikis the presence of an existing older gadget that was used for a similar purpose may cause an interference for compact language list. We would like to bring this to the attention of the admins of this wiki. Full details are on this phabricator ticket (in English).

Due to the large scale enablement of this feature, we have had to use MassMessage for this announcement and as a result it is only written in English. We will really appreciate if this message can be translated for other users of this wiki. Thank you. On behalf of the Wikimedia Language team: Runa Bhattacharjee (WMF) (talk)-02:26، 15 يوليو 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #218

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
Other Noteworthy Stuff
- Since Pokémon is all the rage at the moment here is a short reminder that we have WikiProject Pokémon for them
- TIB is looking for a Wikimedian in Residence in the Open Science Lab
- The code for the Primary Sources Tool has been moved from the Google to the Wikidata organisation on github.
- The ISCB competition for 2016 has been announced
- Use Wikipedia “article main images” to find candidate images for Wikidata
- StrepHit fact extraction agent v.1.1-beta has been released
Did you know?
- Newest properties: GCatholic church ID, GoodReads book ID, QUDT unit ID, Queensland Heritage Register ID, National Library of Wales Archives and Manuscripts, EU River Basin District code, right to vote, GoodReads author ID, title of chess player, BVPH ID
- Query examples: letters with more than two forms (source), metro stations (source), railway incidents (source), pyramids in Egypt (source), women described as wife and men described as husband (source), neuroinformatics coauthor network (source), nationalities of people with an article in the Bavarian Wikipedia (source), Irish general elections and their winners (source), types of historical monuments (source), Alpine four-thousanders (source), Alpine peaks (source), language statements that point to a country instead of a language (source)
- Newest database reports: list of people who died on their birthday
Development
- Map layers are coming soon to the Query Service
- A lot of clean-up under the hood for the user interface
- More interviews with editors in preparation for automated list generation
- Fixed a bug where forms on the mobile site looked broken (phabricator:T138413)
- More work on Citoid integration for easier reference adding
- Added Cape Verdean Creole (phabricator:T127435)
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE) 17:06، 18 يوليو 2016 (ت ع م)

Wikidata weekly summary #219

Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

Events/Blogs/Press
- Playing with Wikidata: communities over water
- Interview with Lydia for her upcoming keynote at the DBpedia conference
Other Noteworthy Stuff
Did you know?
- Newest properties: marriageable age, age of consent, age of candidacy, age of majority, partition coefficient water/octanol, software quality assurance, IBSF ID, FIL ID, has grammatical case, GOST 7.67 cyrillic, Taekwondo Data ID, aircraft registration prefix, DSBE ID, Snapchat username, UNDP country code, UIC numerical country code, UIC alphabetical country code, ARLHS Lighthouse ID, Maritime identification digits, wheel arrangement, LBT person ID, patronym or matronym, host, habitat, Spenserians person ID, SNAP ID
- Query examples: most cited Danish people (source), most self-citing authors (source), topics of series (source), human settlements, north of the Arctic Circle (source), poles of inaccessibility (source), people with the same family and given name (source), compositions for organ and orchestra/compositions for organ and anything else (source), people with a statement with start time / end time qualifiers over 100 years apart (source), causes of death for noble people (source), long-running noble families (source)
- Numbers on Wikidata:Database reports/without claims by site for some projects decreased (e.g. dewiki), remained consistently low (e.g. nlwiki), or recently increased to new highs (e.g. enwiki).
Development
- Finished first rough prototype for structured data on Commons. Wanted to sent out announcement on Friday but one configuration issue is still unsolved. Should be solved in the next 1 or 2 days.
- We are adding a "no match found" message to the suggester that you get when selecting an item or property while adding a new statement for example (phabricator:T140085)
- When a query result contains a mathematical expression it will soon be rendered correctly (phabricator:T137784)
- Added support for Haida (hai) for monolingual text values (phabricator:T138131)
- Finalized the infographic on data flow. For off-wiki usage and For on- wiki usage.
Monthly Tasks
- Hack on one of these.
- Help develop the next summary here!
- Contribute to a Showcase item
- Help translate or proofread pages in your own language!
- Help merge identical items across Wikimedia projects.
- Add labels, in your own language(s), for the new properties listed above.

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · Lydia Pintscher (WMDE)

08:33، 26 يوليو 2016 (ت ع م)